nodejs Captain Not-Too-Obvious ™ Explains How to Improve Node.js Service CPU Performance This is the second in a series of posts about load testing services built on Node.js When the platform team at WB Games in San Francisco began the endeavor of testing and optimizing our services code, we weren’t expecting it to be so. hard! Code we thought was
Load Testing Tips for Running Load Tests with Apache JMeter The platform team at WB Games in San Francisco was recently tasked with load testing our services so that we could optimize our Node.js code. Here are a few of our learnings about load testing with Apache JMeter. Apache JMeter is "open source software, a 100% pure Java application
Photograhy And now, some landscape photography In a former life, I was a photography student at UC Boulder, and then The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, focusing primarily on what was described to me as "ethereal" landscape photography. My cameras of choice where the Canon AE-1, a Zeiss Contax IIa -- which my uncle
How Unit Testing Saves Lives, Your Sanity For the longest time, I didn't really understand what it meant to unit test code. I remember thinking something along the lines of "wait, so I write a function that adds one to a number. then I write a test to prove that it added one to a number?" It
