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Slow Site Performance? Top Tips to Diagnose and Optimize Your Website

Slow website performance is frustrating for both users and website owners. It not only leads to poor user experience but can also impact your SEO rankings. In this video we explore top tips to better diagnose and optimize your website for speed and performance.

Checkly Unveils Innovative CLI Uniting Monitoring and Testing Through a Monitoring as Code Workflow

Checkly, the leading provider of monitoring solutions powered by a monitoring as code (MaC) workflow, has announced the general availability of its new, innovative command line interface, the Checkly CLI. This enables a revolutionary workflow that transforms the way testing and monitoring are done, bringing a new level of efficiency and effectiveness to the industry similar to the impact that Infrastructure as code (IaC) had on infrastructure resources.

What Is The Importance Of Testing Services?

Testing services are essential for ensuring the quality, efficacy, and safety of any product or service. This is no different when it comes to software development, making testing an important part of a successful project's workflow process. Without quality assurance testing, developers often find themselves dealing with numerous problems during the development process that can lead to costly delays and budget overruns.

How to Use Ephemeral Environments for End-to-End Testing

End-to-end testing is a critical process in software development that ensures the reliability and functionality of an application. However, setting up and managing end-to-end testing workflows can be challenging, often requiring complex infrastructure and time-consuming maintenance. This is where ephemeral environments come in.

How Bhuma Achieved Testing Automation in No Time with Qovery

We talked with Juan Carlos, the Head of Software Architects at Bhuma, a software company that strives to be the go-to platform for frontend operational analytics. They provide businesses with cutting-edge tools to easily manage and visualize their data but when the team began to transition to EKS, they faced the challenge of automating testing and integration for containerized platforms. In this article, discover how Qovery helped Bhuma overcome this challenge effortlessly.

How to Set Downtime Alerts for your Website

Learn how to monitor your website uptime proactively, setting downtime alerts to get notified immediately of any accessibility or performance issues. In this guide, we will show you how to setup downtime alerts using Dotcom-Monitor's website monitoring tool. Get real-time insights into your website's performance, and monitor multiple websites and web applications from different locations around the world.

Unite Testing and Monitoring with a Monitoring as Code Workflow, Enabled by the Checkly CLI

Siloing testing and monitoring is increasing your costs, wasting Dev and QA hours, and impacting your customer's experiences. Stefan Judis and Jonathan Canales explain how to align your QA, Dev, and Ops by enabling teams to code, test, and deploy API and Playwright-based checks with our monitoring as code (MaC) workflow, enabled by the Checkly CLI.

How Treating Testing and Monitoring as Separate Operations is Costing You Money

I’ll get right to the point: Not uniting testing and monitoring is costing you expensive engineering time, sales, and customer confidence. Below you’ll find an all too familiar scenario that outlines the problems of traditional testing and monitoring approaches and what the benefits are of a united approach to testing and monitoring through monitoring as code (MaC).

Frontend vs. backend: How to plan your performance testing strategy

There are many aspects of application performance, but they broadly fall into two categories: frontend performance and backend performance. As a tester, it’s important to know the differences between the two and how that impacts the way you approach your tests. In this blog, I’ll provide a high-level overview of frontend performance testing and backend performance testing, including pros and cons of each one.