Load testing Live Video Streaming and Adaptive Bitrate Streaming with JMeter and UbikLoadPack Video streaming is an important part of customers experience on the internet. 100M internet users watch online video every day and 45% of internet users view at least one online video over the course of a month. However 62% of people is […]

Using HLS and MPEG DASH for Flexible Streaming Videos Guest post by Gilad Maayan (Cloudinary) Everyday users watch videos from their phones, tablets, and computers, taking a few moments of their day to learn, to shop, and to be entertained. How many times has that buffering icon caused a user to give up? Time is […]

Load Testing Java Serialization performance Load testing Java Serialization performance is not an easy matter as requests and responses are binary. In order to make your load test realistic and useful, you always have to variabilize the requests and extract data from responses. Hopefully, thanks to our solution, you will be able to use the […]

Load Testing Smooth Streaming Video with JMeter The format Microsoft Smooth Streaming is an adaptive video streaming format created by Microsoft and used to stream content through HTTP requests. This streaming format was first used during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Like other adaptive HTTP streaming technologies (Apple HLS, MPEG-DASH, Adobe HDS …), it allows […]

Apache JMeter 3.2 released: 4 months after the 3.1 release, Apache JMeter 3.2 has been released with another set of very nice features. We’ll show you in this blog the most important ones. Apache JMeter 3.2 in few numbers: Although there is some confusion in the community on JMeter version numbering, version 3.2 is not […]

Why you should seriously consider switching from Commercial Load Testing solutions to Apache JMeter Few months ago we wrote a blog on Why Apache JMeter and Ubik Load Pack is your best load testing tool option . Since then, a lot of things happened in the Load Testing world and the JMeter eco-system which make […]