In New Zealand the scale of most solutions, and the dev teams working on them, are tiny compared to global software companies. Yet many developers, architects and CxOs I work with, want to do things 'because Netflix does it' – especially when it comes to MicroServices.

Continuous Testing is automated testing with fast feedback on build quality via integration in the Continuous Delivery process. This sounds like a nice concept, but does performance testing really fit into that and how?

As more software and services are built to quantify website performance, there is an increasing requirement to try and compare those different sources. Sometimes it is an easy apples-to-apples, such as a common underlying API like W3C Navigation Timing. Mostly it is not.

This blog post deals with two separate technologies that integrate to enhance security and acceleration for encrypted web communications from your servers. By selecting the correct configuration on your server you and your clients can benefit from faster and more secure encrypted communications of your systems. And for free too, if you already have modern CPUs. Faster, better, cheaper. A CIOs dream.

In business systems, particularly those that are customer facing, the expectation is that quick is good. Your customers continue to move online for the consumption of media, getting the latest news, making bookings, and purchase gifts and everyday items. These customers increasingly expect the same from your business. The expectation is that where customer facing systems perform well your customers are happy and will recommend your business to others.