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News of The Damned

by PerfBytes

Join your faithful host James Pulley and special guests every week for analysis on globally crashing websites and system failures while he reviews the disastrous sins of the evildoers in the IT department

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Episodes

  1. Black Friday 2023, Hour 1

    Join us for a discussion on the importancde of performance on the largest shopping day of the year

  2. News of the Damned, Daily Edition for December 12, 2022

    We take a look at the failure of Junior Eurovision over the weekend and what lessons can we learn from its failure

  3. NOTD April 03 2022

    Performance Antipatterns all around us

  4. Black Friday 2021, Hour 6 - Wrapup

    Crashes, Observability, Frustration & Delight

  5. Black Friday 2021, Hour 5 - Failures Cont...

    Deloitte Continued Report from the UK

  6. Black Friday 2021, hour 4 - Failures Cont....

    Conversion as a function of speed Customer Experience Matters Milliseconds make millions

  7. Black Fiday 2021, Hour 3 - Black Friday in the USA

    Failues in the USA Performance Engineering practices The importance of caching/CDN User Expectations - Google, Facebook, et al Google Rail

  8. Black Friday 2021 Hour 2 - Rest of the world

    How did we get here? Crashes outside of the USA

  9. Black Friday 2021 Hour 1

    History of Black Friday How did we get here Pre Black Friday sales, why? Let's look at some crashes!

  10. Back Friday, hour 5

    What happens when things go south

  11. Black Friday 2020, Hour five

    Big Themes for this year

  12. Black Friday 2020, Hour 4

    Common Antipatterns with Mark and Scott

  13. Black Friday 2020, Hour 2

    With Scott Moore Shifting your load How to measure your user experience

  14. Black Friday 2020, Hour 1

    Rest of the world, History of Black Friday, Mobile

  15. NOTD Daily 10-31-2020 The Power of Celebrity

    On June 25, 2009 Michael Jackson passed away. In the 24 hours which followed traffic on the internet surged by up to 20% worldwide. Twitter failed after reaching a volume of over 5000 tweets per minute about the event. TMZ crashed and burned, as did the LA times. Dozens of more sites failed under...

  16. NOTD Daily 10-29-2020 The seduction of SaaS

    Today’s edition is brought to you by Foulk Consulting Services Foulk Consulting Services (FCS) has more than 15 years of experience as a high caliber, industry-leading services provider of application performance testing, monitoring, and management with a strong background in software quality...

  17. NOTD Daily 10-28-2020 The Strand Bookstore

    Today’s Edition is bright to you by Catchpoint Catchpoint’s mission is to help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employees Their Digital Experience Monitoring Platform pinpoints performance and availability problems users experience anywhere in the world. Catchpoint...

  18. NOTD Daily 10-27-2020 Learning Management Systems

    Today’s edition is brought to you by Foulk Consulting Services Foulk Consulting Services (FCS) has more than 15 years of experience as a high caliber, industry-leading services provider of application performance testing, monitoring, and management with a strong background in software quality...

  19. NOTD Daily 10-23-2020 Streaming & Load

    Today’s show is brought to you by Catchpoint Software Catchpoint’s mission is to help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employees STREAMING and Load. Streaming and Load. I feel like I should be Burl Ives in a Christmas special with Rudolf or something….”Streaming and...

  20. NOTD Daily 10-22-2020 Bots

    Today’s edition is brought to you by Foulk Consulting Services Foulk Consulting Services (FCS) has more than 15 years of experience as a high caliber, industry-leading services provider of application performance testing, monitoring, and management with a strong background in software quality...

  21. NOTD Daily 10-20-2020 Quantum Analytics

    Today’s show is brought to you by Catchpoint Software Catchpoint’s mission is to help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employees Their Digital Experience Monitoring Platform pinpoints performance and availability problems users experience anywhere in the world....

  22. NOTD Daily 10-20-2020 Let's Talk Session

    Today'e edition of PerfBytes News of the damned Daily is brought to you by Foulk Consulting Foulk Consulting Services Foulk Consulting Services (FCS) has more than 15 years of experience as a high caliber, industry-leading services provider of application performance testing, monitoring, and...

  23. NOTD Daily 10-19-2020, South Carolina CARES Website

    Today’s show is brought to you by Catchpoint Software Catchpoint’s mission is to help companies advance the digital experience of their customers and employees Their Digital Experience Monitoring Platform pinpoints performance and availability problems users experience anywhere in the world....

  24. NOTD special Edition, The New School Year 2020-21

    Challenges continue in the LMS Universe for the 2020/21 Academic year

  25. News of the Damned for Sunday, April 19th 2020

    Yeezy, Financial industry Maladies, Remote Learning, and adults being adults on lockdown. We look at the power of celebrity and several industry wide issues

  26. NOTD for Sunday March 29 2020 - The Collapse of Basic Services

    Today's Episode if brought to you by * Foulk Consulting Services: https://www.foulkconsulting.com * Catchpoint Software: https://www.catchpoint.com Today’s show is co-hosted by Brian Brumfield (Foulk Consulting) and Nithyanand Mehta (Catchpoint), backed up with observations from Tim Western in…

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  27. News of the Damned for Sunday, March 15 2020

    Today's Episode if brought to you by * Catchpoint Software: https://www.catchpoint.com * Foulk Consulting Services: https://www.foulkconsulting.com This is the COVID-19 Episode. In this show we cover several sites impacted by the COVID-19 Virus’ impact on organizations and end users. In specific,...

  28. News of the Damned for March 1st 2020

    Today's Episode if brought to you by * Catchpoint Software: https://www.catchpoint.com * Foulk Consulting Services: https://www.foulkconsulting.com Scott Moore joins us from the road and the Perftour.us to provide insight on his discussions with executives around the country on the subject of...

  29. News of the Damned for Sunday, Feb 16 2020

    Today's Episode if brought to you by * Catchpoint Software: https://www.catchpoint.com * Foulk Consulting Services: https://www.foulkconsulting.com In this episode we cover the chaos of the Iowa caucuses, the challenges of the political season with politician websites, a Superbowl commercial…

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  30. News of the Damned for Sunday, 26 January 2020

    Selective Service A Princess moves to Canada The QUeen wants your Money KPOP and Ticketmaster

  31. Black Friday Follow up with Josh Carter of Blue Triangle

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com How did we do over the Thanksgiving to cyber Monday period from a Performance Perspective? Join James and Josh Carter of Blue Triangle as we go through the stats on raw dollars, split on mobile vs not, conversion rate...

  32. Black Friday 2019, Hour 5 - When Everything Goes Wrong

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com OK, So you have worked hard and buttoned up everything you can think of on your website. But still, something has gone wrong. What next? James is joined by a panel of individuals to discuss where to head when disaster is upon...

  33. Black Friday 2019, Hour 4 - CDN, Cache & Bots (Oh My!)

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com Keep the load off! One of the easiest things you can do to improve performance is ensure that load that should not be on your site isn't. In this episode we hit some large areas whish are commonly overlooked which can...

  34. Black Friday 2019, Hour 3 - The Cart!

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com The shopping cart. That little icon in in the top right corner of the website. It seems so harmless sitting there with a little number on top of it. Well, maybe yes, maybe not. There are many methods of deploying the shopping...

  35. Black Friday 2019, Hour 2 - Monitoring for Performance

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com Crashes/Slowdowns: Costco, Ulta, PetSmart, H&M, HomeDepot Insight is key when you are running an eCommerce website, as response time and conversion rates are directly related. As your site slows, so does your revenue. James is...

  36. Black Friday 2019, Hour 1 - Origins. What is Black Friday a WorldWide event

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com Thanksgiving Crashes: TESCO, Footasylum How did we get here? How did a day after a USA only holiday becomes a worldwide shopping event? Guests: Stijn Schepers, Accenture

  37. News of the Damned for June 23rd 2019 - Performance Test Results

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com Brian and James continue to cover performance testing foundations. This week we stop at the topic of performance test reporting and why the canned reports from your tool are just the beginning. Crashes for the week: * Taco…

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  38. News of the Damned for June 02 2019 - Guest Operating Systems

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com Brian and James continue to cover performance testing foundations. This week we stop at the topic of Guest operating systems, how this impacts your testing and your performance efforts Crashes for the week: * Tesla Model 3...

  39. News of the Damned for May 19th 2019 - Network Foundations

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com Brian and James continue to cover performance testing foundations. This week we explore the topic of Network and it's many permutations: Physical, Virtual, Wired, Wireless, fast, slow, really fast. Crashes for the week: *...

  40. News of the Damned for April 28th 2019 - DISK Foundations

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com Brian and James continue to cover performance testing foundations. This week we stop at the topic of Disk, or is that storage now that we have fewer platters spinning. It's one of those finite resources on any host and how you...

  41. News of the Damned for April 14th 2019 - RAM!

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com Brian and James continue to cover performance testing foundations. This week we stop at the topic of Memory and how Performance is related Crashes for the week: * @PracticalDev, https://gtmetrix.com/reports/dev.to/XP5HpEjl *...

  42. News of the Damned for March 31st 2019 - CPU

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com This week Brian and Jame go for the Brainz: No, this isn't Tarman from "The living Dead." It's all about the CPU in your box. Cores, INTS vs IRQS, Application vs System. It's What motivates your PC Website Crashes: Parliament...

  43. News of the Damned for March 17th 2019 - STATISTICS

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com Brian and James continue to cover performance testing foundations. This week we stop at the topic of performance reporting stats and meaningful measures. Along the way we take a look a a few crashes to see what we can learn...

  44. News of the Damned for March 3rd 2019 - TIME

    This show sponsored by Foulk Consulting http://www.foulkconsulting.com Brian and James continue to cover performance testing foundations. This week we stop at the topic of time. Along the way we chat about human perception, how Google measures time, site abandonment, legal requirements, etc.....

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Join your faithful host James Pulley and special guests every week for analysis on globally crashing websites and system failures while he reviews the disastrous sins of the evildoers in the IT department

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