Chris Baeckstrom

TechStrong TV Interview

RedLine13 co-founder Bob Bickel will do a TechStrong TV interview with Alan Shimel, CEO / Founder of MediaOps, Inc. TechStrong TV has a live stream on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday weekly, featuring exclusive news, announcements and conversations with IT leaders and experts on topics ranging from digital transformation to DevOps, Cybersecurity, Cloud-Native, Containers and deep-dives into specific technologies and best practices. Bob will talk about who RedLine13 is and why anyone should care.Read More →

RedLine13 supports EC2 c5n

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of EC2 C5n instances that can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth. Redline13 supports EC2 C5n instances for load tests which require high network usage load tests.  Now when you’re selecting your AWS server you can choose a C5n instance. Even though AWS provides this extremely high network bandwidth, the cost is still low. RedLine13 gives you the power and control to choose a C5n instance. What otherRead More →

The Results page now has more features. We have updated the actions layout to display the most relevant and useful options at the conclusion of a test, as well as during test execution. Improved layout with additional options. New buttons Print. This feature has always been available but not as easy to find. It now appears in a convenient location on the results page. Report. This new feature allows you to send us a message ifRead More →

MSD ease of using RedLine13

Senior Automation Engineer Eldad Uzman compares RedLine13 to BlazeMeter and setting up their own load test environment at MSD Animal Health Intelligence Technology Labs and the ease of using RedLine13. He spoke at the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting. A 73 second video of the conversation has been posted on RedLine13’s YouTube channel. Read more about what other RedLine13 customers said about why they chose RedLine13 and how they’re using it. You can try RedLine13 for free.Read More →

RedLine13 customer Renaissance is fully bought into shift left. They have 400 developers and one performance engineer with the developers doing the load testing. Read more about shift left testing. This was part of their plan to save money by moving from traditional data centers to AWS. They ran a comprehensive proof of concept with RedLine13 and then chose RedLine13. RedLine13 made it so that they could move their load tests to the developers with RedLine13’sRead More →

Million Concurrent User Load Testing

Load testing with a high concurrent user count can be challenging in many ways. This post will tell you about how one team did it with one million user testing with JMeter and the challenges they faced. Requirements Thinklogic, a Los Angeles based consulting firm specializing in web development and custom business software solutions, was tasked with quickly building and load testing a highly scalable web-based application that would handle one million concurrent users. The highRead More →

ITRex Chose RedLine13

ITRex is a software development and consulting company that “creates and transforms products and enterprises to drive growth.” They wrote a blog post: Why ITRex chose RedLine13 as the primary load testing tool. Their post walks through the advantages and then gives some examples of ITRex customers. One customer was an e-commerce platform owner, struggling with their response time and downtimes, so their bounce rates went up and sales decreased. They used RedLine13 to run JMeterRead More →

A RedLine13 SaaS customer talked about using RedLine13 to run high volume load tests of 100 million requests per hour with JMeter and RedLine13 at the recent RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting. They first became a RedLine13 customer a little over a year ago and have ramped up quickly, running over 700 tests on RedLine13 in that time. Their next step is to get the high volume tests into automation. They are doing this by leveragingRead More →

JMeter 5.4

When it comes to web products, load testing plays an instrumental role in analyzing and measuring the performance of the offered features (or services) under different load conditions. Consider a scenario where the application performs well under sub-optimal (and optimal) workload but its performance deteriorates when the workload is too high! Well, it could have a major impact on the user-experience since the requests might take much longer to process than expected. This is where ApacheRead More →