Month: May 2019

The Performance Implications Of Web Security

Over the past few years all of the browser vendors have substantially enhanced the surety of their product and with it the security of the internet.  This has led to a much wider adoption of the encrypted hypertext transport protocol HTTPS, and browser will now mark websites as ‘not secure’, especially when a form, for example a login or credit card details, is requested. 

Specifically, pages that included forms where login credentials or credit card details could be entered would be labelled as not secure. 

This approach makes p.....

Exposing the vagaries of ORM in load testing

Taking a look at database issues and why an ORM-accessed RDBMS may cause web performance issues

After a long journey in design, development and functional testing, rarely is a new website or application completed without a performance load test as one of its final milestones. Project, and sometimes regulatory, sign-off is dependent on certain criteria being met so there is often much riding on the successful outcome of the load test. Because of this there can be considerable trepidation in the team as they start the load testing process as load testing is designed to exercise both the software and hardware configurations to their limits.

Although the .....