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17 November 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Busy times at SOASTA and loving it!

It’s been a really busy couple of months here at SOASTA! Our free product CloudTest Lite is rocking the software testing world right now. Literally. We’ve seen thousands of downloads and activations from all around the world (Yes, we load tested our registration infrastructure of course ) We’re receiving awesome feedback from performance testing luminaries, [...]

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07 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Can We Find The Future of Web Performance in Berlin’s Pubs?

Speed, speed, speed. It’s probably the hottest topic in every R&D and operation team involved in web or mobile application. It’s the #1 principle for a successful web app, as stated by Fred Wilson during his talk at the annual future of web apps in 2010. There is not one day I don’t see a [...]

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31 August 2011 ~ 1 Comment

The 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps

Last year, I’ve watched the talk Fred Wilson gave at the annual Future of Web Apps Miami conference in February 2010.  I’ve stumbled upon it today and treated myself with another watch. This is so inspiring to me that I thought I would share it here. If you have 30 minutes during the day, treat [...]

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29 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Is Google Page Speed Service a threat to the Internet neutrality?

I probably read too much behind Google’s latest annoucement about its Page Speed Service but still, I have to ask myself some questions. As I said yesterday, I do think Google Page Speed Service is a threat to all the consultants out there who are doing Web Performance Optimization. They mostly target SMBs and they’re [...]

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28 July 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Google Page Speed Service – The death of the Web Performance Optimization consultant?

Over the past few years, Web Performance Optimization, also known as WPO has flourished. In fact, ever since Google announced that the initial page load will be taken into consideration in Google ranking, it’s been a bit crazy. We’ve seen lots of consulting company jumping on the band-wagon to offer optimization services. A lot of [...]

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27 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

SOASTA is hiring the BEST performance engineers in Europe

Yes, the rumors are true. We’re expanding our performance engineering organization in Europe as a lot of companies need help to get their web and mobile applications ready for the traffic!

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20 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Web Performance To-Do List for the next few days

You didn’t know what to do in the next few days? Here are some pointers This is where you want to start: Download CloudTest Lite

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11 July 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Software Testing Revolution with SOASTA CloudTest Lite

Before talking about why I’m so excited today, let me tell you a story. 18 months ago, as I was investigating SOASTA CloudTest for my own Software Testing organization, I had a chance to get a demo from Dan Bartow and a chat with Tom Lounibos about the product. Slavy Slavov who was heading our [...]

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