JavaScript test performance: getting the best out of Jest 11/12/21 by Edward Byne In recent years Jest has established itself as the go-to testing framework for JavaScript and TypeScript development. It provides a... Read more Leave your thoughts
How to secure a GraphQL service using persisted queries 05/01/20 by Christoph Walter Using persisted queries can help you to improve the performance and security of your applications. Learn how you can use this approach with every GraphQL service. Read more Leave your thoughts
Performance Analysis of a GraphQL application with Instana 03/06/20 by Robert Hostlowsky Finding performance issues in a GraphQL application with Instana Read more Leave your thoughts
Hit me baby one more time – What are cache hits and why should you care? 12/06/19 by Frank Rosner Computer architecture, e.g. the CPU cache utilization, can influence the runtime of your implementation in orders of magnitude. Read more Leave your thoughts
Microbenchmarking your Scala code 11/29/19 by Frank Rosner Microbenchmarks are a useful tool to compare the relative performance of different implementations. ScalaMeter is a microbenchmarking and regression testing framework for Scala. Read more Leave your thoughts
Explain non-blocking I/O like I’m five 04/05/19 by Frank Rosner Ten years ago there was a major shift in the field of network application development. In 2009 Ryan Dahl invented Node.js. Read more Leave your thoughts
Chaos Engineering GameDay 08/16/18 by Daniel Kocot In a recent blog post, Benjamin Wilms gave an introduction to “Chaos Engineering“. But how to apply potential Chaos Engineering... Read more Leave your thoughts
Gatling JDBC Release 1.0.0 07/18/18 by Ronny Bräunlich The first version of the Gatling extension Gatling JDBC has been released. Read about the why and how of it. Read more Leave your thoughts
Chaos Engineering – withstanding turbulent conditions in production 07/05/18 by Benjamin Wilms In this article I give you a simple and descriptive introduction to the world of Chaos Engineering. As a neat side-effect, you will meet all your colleagues, if you do it wrong! Read more Leave your thoughts