Taking the Pulse

Learn about the issues after launching an online site, load testing, GUI, Perl modules, and session counts.

Never forget the work

When we arrived on Wednesday night, I immediately set up my laptop in my parents’ home office. I can work anywhere I have broadband and a cell phone. Using their 3 MB cable broadband, I used PuTTY to log into our jumphost and start up my sampling scripts.

Looking up the GUI

During the run-up to the launch, I was part of load testing this new site. Most load tests deliver results after the test is done. Since ...