Noah Davids, Support Engineer at Stratus discusses how application performance is affected by the network, the TCP stack and the application’s design. Covering common issues, how to test for them before the application is placed into production, how to diagnose them when they occur, and how to tune the system to reduce their impact. The [...]

I build products for a living. Often when I visit a Stratus customer, I’m asked a question of the form “Do you support left-handed widgets?” When I was a young, inexperienced engineer, I’d think for a moment, and then tell the customer yes or no (generally, “no”, since most customers get pretty good at figuring out [...]