Performance

Tracking Website Performance

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For those that have been paying attention to AIIM recently, you may have noticed that our website wasn’t performing at 100%. While the website has never been the fastest, it had been dramatically slower recently.

We’ve been working on thing to improve the user experience but sometimes circumstances catch-up with you as it did this week. I thought I would share a little case study in addressing Website performance.

Quick Background

If you aren’t a regular visitor to AIIM’s website, in addition to standard content delivery, we have some basic Community features including blogs, profiles, and discussions. In addition, members can update their information and preferences stored in our Association Management System (AMS). One final feature is that our training courses are all available directly through our website.

In 2012 we saw a steady rise in traffic, which is good. We were seeing more engagement and more of our research and content being accessed by a wider audience than before. We also noticed a trend of people taking more of our online courses instead of the traditional in-person courses.

Seeing this, we made plans to improve our scalability. Then reality hit.

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EMC World 2011: Documentum Performance and Scalability, Part 2

This is the second half of Ed Bueche’s annual performance session. This is a standard must attend of every Momentum and I’m not going anywhere.

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EMC World 2011: Documentum Performance and Scalability, Part 1

This is Ed Bueche’s annual performance session. This is a standard must attend of every Momentum. Coffee in-hand I am ready to listen to Ed impart his wisdom upon us.

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EMC World 2010: EMC xCP / Documentum Performance, Scalability, and Sizing – Part 1

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This is the first half of Ed Bueche’s annual performance session.  I’m only going to be posting notes from this half though as I will be presenting during his second session, so if you are attending, send me your notes and I’ll share them with everyone.

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EMC World 2009: Documentum Performance, Scalability, and Sizing, Part 2

This is the second of two sessions by Ed Bueche. His sessions are must-attends.  His sessions last year, part one and part two, are useful references, but as always, this year’s information takes precedence. Be sure to read the first session notes.

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EMC World 2009: Documentum Performance, Scalability, and Sizing, Part 1

This is the first of two sessions by Ed Bueche. His sessions are must-attends.  His sessions last year, part one and part two, are useful references, but as always, this year’s information takes precedence. Some information that Ed is presenting is available in the Architecture session notes.

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Online Games and Enterprise Applications

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James posted on this topic after watching a presentation at OWASP’s local Hartford chapter meeting last week. It was buried halfway down in the post, but it asked a great question:

Do they really think that their silly little architectures that support 500 users concurrently is somehow more challenging than implementing an architecture that supports 2 million concurrent?

It is a damn good point. The playground for these applications is different, but the same issues arise. I’ve played a few online games in my day and have seen the ups and downs of their implementations. I think I’ll throw in my opinion on two of the items for comparison, performance and security.

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Measuring ECM Performance

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I was reading a post by Lopataru on his blog. For those that haven’t read his blog, Lopataru is working on his PhD research, focusing on Content Management. He is trying to determine what makes a Content Management system high-performance. I’m not going to analyze his thoughts, but I am going to add some independent thought to the issue.

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