Unable to load a work-in-progress JMeter plugin
This is mostly search engine bait, but it might help someone. I’m doing some testing on JMeter, creating a plugin to extend it, and I had this weird problem where it would not load
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Content-Encoding: br, or Brotli compression with JMeter
Update: JMeter 3.3 now includes Brotli compression out of the box I am working on a load test for a customer and I ran into a very weird problem where I was not able
Magento 2 Performance on Docker (a preliminary test)
Introduction A few days ago there was a question on Twitter about using Docker in production instead of development. I was a little intrigued by the question because my experience has been in the
Holiday Prep Load Testing for Magento
With the holiday season coming upon us more quickly than we would like, preparing your site for the holiday season is a required activity. Load testing your Magento installation is a must before your
Load Testing the Magento Checkout with JMeter (and enjoying it)
Update: I have started offering a new load testing service for Magento. Check it out! Load Testing the Magento checkout is, in theory, difficult. Well, not so much difficult as time consuming. It is
Testing Magento with random URLs in JMeter
One of the things that I think is important to do in your testing is to introduce some level of randomness into your testing for a web server. In the wild you have almost
JMeter test script for layered navigation
I’ve been doing a lot testing with JMeter lately for Magento. I really do like it (Magento and JMeter). It may not be the bestest, most perfectest tool in the world, but a) it’s
JMeter Error in NonGUIDriver java.lang.NullPointerException
Was doing some JMeter testing today when I got this error. ./jmeter -n -t ~/test.jmx Error in NonGUIDriver java.lang.NullPointerException I had a JMX file that I copied to a remote server where JMeter was
Magento Performance on PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5RC3
<update>Magento 1 now supports PHP 5.4</update> I woke up this morning with a burning desire to do load tests. Actually, I woke up with a burning desire to not do the same thing I
Testing GlusterFS for Magento
I am not a fan of NFS for production information. NFS is great for aggregating data from across multiple different machines, storing deployment files and other such administrative things. Serving static content? No. I