Vigilant pursuer of Software Quality, BBQ, UT Sports, and good times

Joined August 2007
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The 2024 #PerfTour on #software #performance optimization w/ experts Scott Moore and @perfpulley was held this week in Dallas. IT pros from the region gathered to discuss the latest trends in the industry. Join us for the next stop on the tour. Drop a comment below ⤵️. #DevOps
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If your development group cannot make their own @Jira instance faster, why do you think they will be able to make your software faster? I can make their Jira instance faster and your software faster (scalable , eCommerce Conversion , cloud bill--) meetings.hubspot.com/james-p…

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Week 3: What is the Opportunity Cost of Fragile Software? Oakland upset Kentucky in the 1st round of the NCAA basketball tournament. Immediately, orders for Oakland Grizzlies paraphernalia jumped on the university website. x.com/KyleTucker_ATH/status/… 1/5

The university website crashed after Oakland beat Kentucky. People in Louisville bought $8,000 in T-shirts. "Next year at the Kentucky game, all these Louisville fans are gonna be wearing Oakland shirts." On savoring 15 minutes of fam. And wanting more: theathletic.com/5362571/2024…
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Week 2:  What is the opportunity cost of fragile software? Every company has software employees hate to use because it is fragile. Let @QAConsultants help your organization turn these bad software apples around. Give me a call. Let's chat. 704-351-0117 bbc.com/news/uk-68584235
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What is the opportunity cost of fragile software? Avoiding a failure in production is why you engage firms like @QAConsultants  to quantify your risk that something of this nature may occur ...and how to minimize that risk. Let's chat, 704-351-0117 cnbc.com/2024/03/15/mcdonald…
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Reminder, Black Friday crashes begin with spot sales on November 1st
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We are not ones to be idle or rest on success. Automated testing, checking, and validation continue to evolve. Our next objectives are to tackle how hashtag #AI will help and provide value to our craft. This post was just a short summary of the hundreds…lnkd.in/geGmkqSq
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😎😨🙄 Wow! Gartner® finally acknowledges I exist! 5 takeaways from their Performance Engineering Report #technology, #softwareengineering, #softwaredesign, #automation, #userexperience, #cloudcomputing #performanceengineering youtu.be/ulaxkS4v2EQ
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When @arodov asked me to come on board 7 years ago, he had a vision to make positive impacts on the world through software quality. A vision we have lived and implemented every day. Today, we have accelerated that vision on a global scale with our acqu…lnkd.in/g4t34BJb
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The cloud favors highly resource efficient applications. Most developers do not build highly resource efficient applications. world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-t…

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What was it it we were saying @perfpulley about testing of #AI for #Quality!!
According to ChatGPT I am deceased "James Pulley was a well-known figure in the software performance industry who passed away in 2011. He was a performance testing and engineering expert who wrote extensively on the subject and was a popular speaker at conferences and events."
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I hope you've found this thread helpful. I'm currently building out my new company called Figure - we are building humanoid robots. Follow me @adcock_brett for more. Like/Retweet the first tweet below if you can:
I sold my software company for $100M. 3 years later, I took another one public at $2.7B. 7 things I did differently in my second startup:
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I helped Pelé write a book in 2014, and got a brief glimpse into his unusual life. I wrote about it here for AQ I’ll miss him a lot. RIP americasquarterly.org/articl…
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On this Thanksgiving I am thankful for the continued success of all of the people in my life: My family, my friends, my peers, and my coworkers. But must of all, I am thankful for the creative nature of software developers, ensuring multiple lifetimes of problems to solve.
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One of the typical conversation points in QA is the ability/mandate/opportunity to keep your company out of the headlines. Product launches. Flash Sales. One time events. These are all opportunities to generate positive headlines. #blackfriday2022 is no d…lnkd.in/g42z6_Wk
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How are you accounting for bots in your load profile? Blasters, Spyders, Walkers, they all cause a degree of load, up to 50% on public sites. They usually don't report to APM tools like Adobe or Google analytics so they are hidden from the data you use to build your tests
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We just released our Black Friday Readiness Guide, which includes a checklist of performance engineering questions to prepare for a successful Black Friday. info.qaconsultants.com/black… #PerformanceEngineering #BlackFriday #Ecommerce
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Looking forward to a Top #PerformanceEngineering Discussion at Topgolf this week! Thanks to Tricentis and Digital.ai for making bringing us all together! lnkd.in/gB3x_JCF

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Chopped, Sliced, or Pulled? Let's have a nice side debate on the merits of BBQ preparation with a side of Performance Engineering! Pay no attention to those rib people in the corner
The Performance Tour hits ATLANTA, GA on September 29th with Scott Moore, James Pulley @perfpulley (our Chief Performance Officer) and Bryan Cole (Tricentis). Join us to learn more about performance engineering and for some BBQ! Register at: hubs.la/Q01n0NSh0
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