Dan Racanelli

Dan Racanelli has been working in the Music and Video Game industries for a combined 25 years. He’s typically juggling cats, knitting, or chasing his children in around Berlin, Germany.

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