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New Year’s Resolutionsfor Web Performance 2009

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New Year’s Resolution #1

I will always monitor my sites from where my end-users are.Performance can vary 5X or more.

My users don’t live in my data center, or at least I haven’t seen any.

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New Year’s Resolution #2

When moving my applications into the cloud, I will continue monitoring my performance 24/7.

IT cloud services will form 25 percent of all incremental global IT spending growth by 2012 according to IDC.

I will not exclusively rely on the cloud computing provider to monitor my applications’ performance.

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New Year’s Resolution #3

I will benchmark my performance against my competitors and beat them.

Relative performance matters!

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New Year’s Resolution #4

I will watch the outliers in my performance data.Averages can be misleading.

I need to watch the 95th percentiles, slowest hours etc.

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New Year’s Resolution #5

I will test my applications’ performance early & often in the application lifecycle.

I will download KITE at kite.keynote.com and test my apps globally for free. (and tell my coworkers that KITE is available and free for them as well!)