Over past one year, I have been playing around with my WordPress based site. This involved primarily two activities. First and most important is adding and improving contents of the site. This is publishing new interesting articles. It is bit challenging activity, cause you have to have good contents that will pull visitors continuously. But there is another activity which also made me invest considerable time. This is maintaining the website and the content management tool – WordPress. Now, after so many iterations, I am ready with a list of …

Performance testing is a critical step in the life cycle of any project. This step checks if the application is capable of handling expected load within desired response time limits in given environment resources. Web services are not free from the performance requirements. Generally, web services involve remote access by many clients, hence web services need to have high performance. Due to remote access involvement, testing a web service is not as easy as testing a standalone programs or web based applications. There is need of special tools to test …

Performance, though this concern exists in an application development lifecycle since day one, it comes into picture only when the first performance problem is reported, mostly in production environment. Application is ready; unit testing, integration testing and functional testing rounds are complete. And now its time for some load/performance testing cycles. In just a few hours, the performance testing team shouts ‘the page is taking ages to load’, ‘I can click on a button, go get a coffee, finish it off, and the application is still cooking something behind and …

This article tries to explore the business case behind Google’s huge user base creation. It will make you think about Google’s next move on acquisition front.