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On June 25, 2009 Michael Jackson passed away. In the 24 hours which followed traffic on the internet surged by up to 20% worldwide. Twitter failed after reaching a volume of over 5000 tweets per minute about the event. TMZ crashed and burned, as did the LA times. Dozens of more sites failed under the load. This was the largest single celebrity driven event on the internet in terms of load, but it defined a path that others have followed.Today’s Edition is bright to you by CatchpointCatchpoint’s mission is to help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employeesTheir Digital Experience Monitoring Platform pinpoints performance and availability problems users experience anywhere in the world.Catchpoint helps the world's Internet Builders and Operators detect and fix issues with confidence—faster than ever before.Find out more at www.Catchpoint.com

NOTD Daily 10-31-2020 The Power of Celebrity

Today’s edition is brought to you by Foulk Consulting ServicesFoulk Consulting Services (FCS) has more than 15 years of experience as a high caliber, industry-leading services provider of application performance testing, monitoring, and management with a strong background in software quality assurance. At Foulk Consulting we believe we have the greatest consultants in the world and we love growing our customer-focused relationships. Find out more at www.FoulkConsulting.comSaaS, The final Frontier. A buffet of services, from helpdesk ticketing to eCommerce. No hardware. No dedicated resources. Pay as you go by user. A Miracle of the modern I.T age. What could possibly go wrong?

NOTD Daily 10-29-2020 The seduction of SaaS

Today’s Edition is bright to you by CatchpointCatchpoint’s mission is to help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employeesTheir Digital Experience Monitoring Platform pinpoints performance and availability problems users experience anywhere in the world.Catchpoint helps the world's Internet Builders and Operators detect and fix issues with confidence—faster than ever before.Find out more at www.Catchpoint.comToday’s story boys & girls begins at a place filled with adventure, travels, monsters, heroes, tomes filled with ancient knowledge, from the center of the earth to the furthest reaches of the galaxy. On this dark & rainy night, our story takes us to the strand bookstore at the corner of Broadway and E 12th street in the heart of of island of Manhattan, in the city of Gotham

NOTD Daily 10-28-2020 The Strand Bookstore

Today’s edition is brought to you by Foulk Consulting ServicesFoulk Consulting Services (FCS) has more than 15 years of experience as a high caliber, industry-leading services provider of application performance testing, monitoring, and management with a strong background in software quality assurance. At Foulk Consulting we believe we have the greatest consultants in the world and we love growing our customer-focused relationships. Find out more at www.FoulkConsulting.comI have a bone to pick with Academia. Nearly every day on the News of the Damned daily feed we’ll find students impacted in the use of Learning Management Software...and in particular for the upload of assignments.

NOTD Daily 10-27-2020 Learning Management Systems

Today’s show is brought to you by Catchpoint SoftwareCatchpoint’s mission is to help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employeesSTREAMING and Load. Streaming and Load. I feel like I should be Burl Ives in a Christmas special with Rudolf or something….”Streaming and load….”Just today multi-platinum artist Blackbear went through a crash on the digital media platform Moment house.

NOTD Daily 10-23-2020 Streaming & Load

Today’s edition is brought to you by Foulk Consulting ServicesFoulk Consulting Services (FCS) has more than 15 years of experience as a high caliber, industry-leading services provider of application performance testing, monitoring, and management with a strong background in software quality assurance. At Foulk Consulting we believe we have the greatest consultants in the world and we love growing our customer-focused relationships. Find out more at www.FoulkConsulting.comBots….. You should have the same fear of them that members of the united federation of planets have of the BORG. You should tell your children scary stories about them this Halloween to terrify them. Mindless. Efficient. Out to assimilate all of the resources of your website to meet their needs and no other

NOTD Daily 10-22-2020 Bots

Today’s show is brought to you by Catchpoint SoftwareCatchpoint’s mission is to help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employeesTheir Digital Experience Monitoring Platform pinpoints performance and availability problems users experience anywhere in the world.Catchpoint helps the world's Internet Builders and Operators detect and fix issues with confidence—faster than ever before.Find out more at www.Catchpoint.comEvery company with a public facing website wants to understand the user experience, and it seems like every member of the marketing department has their favorite analytics beacon. This has unfortunately led to an explosion in the number of marketing beacons per site. Adobe, Facebook, Google, hundreds of more (and it seems like more by the day). Now we come to the problem. You have dozens of people in your marketing department. They each have a favorite solution.

NOTD Daily 10-20-2020 Quantum Analytics

Today'e edition of PerfBytes News of the damned Daily is brought to you by Foulk ConsultingFoulk Consulting ServicesFoulk Consulting Services (FCS) has more than 15 years of experience as a high caliber, industry-leading services provider of application performance testing, monitoring, and management with a strong background in software quality assurance. At Foulk Consulting we believe we have the greatest consultants in the world and we love growing our customer-focused relationships. Find out more at www.FoulkConsulting.comSession is one of the more confusing items in performance testing and engineering because we use it so many different ways. Session duration is the time someone visits the site from beginning to end. Session objects are the items that we hold in memory until a person leaves a site. Session timeout is how long we wait after the last request to clean up the session objects after the last request. I want to speak about the first and the last because too many people conflate session duration with session timeout when setting up their web server, often with disastrous results on high load days.

NOTD Daily 10-20-2020 Let's Talk Session

Today’s show is brought to you by Catchpoint SoftwareCatchpoint’s mission is to help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employeesTheir Digital Experience Monitoring Platform pinpoints performance and availability problems users experience anywhere in the world.Catchpoint helps the world's Internet Builders and Operators detect and fix issues with confidence—faster than ever before.Find out more at www.Catchpoint.comAs I was having breakfast this morning, I received a text message from Liz Daly of Dalydesigns in Greenville SC. Today was the first day of operations for a site managed by the South Carolina Cares act. The site opened up this morning to accept applications from nonprofits, minority owned and small businesses with fewer than 25 employees that have been impacted financially due to COVID-19.The site became inaccessible almost immediately for registration, reporting errors to users that the site had reached its available portal license limit.

NOTD Daily 10-19-2020, South Carolina CARES Website

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