e-learning and load testing

Common App, used by undergraduate college applicants to apply to more than 900 member colleges and universities worldwide, uses RedLine13 to verify their targets for system performance during peak activity. They are one of many e-learning companies who found what they need with RedLine13. This post is about a few of the e-learning companies and load testing: Common App, Renaissance Learning, ACT and Riverside Insights. Renaissance Learning Renaissance Learning, Inc. is a software as a serviceRead More →

Moved to RedLine13

Heath Meyer of ACT spoke at LoadTestWorld about why ACT moved to RedLine13 and how they did it. Read below for the highlights of Heath’s talk or watch his 28 minute video on the LoadTestWorld YouTube channel. Periodic Exploration Heath explained how ACT regularly does periodic explorations of new technology and that is how they learned about RedLine13. ACT evaluated the new technology based on: cost ease of use support ability to leverage existing scripts SavingsRead More →

MSD ease of using RedLine13

Senior Automation Engineer Eldad Uzman compares RedLine13 to BlazeMeter and setting up their own load test environment at MSD Animal Health Intelligence Technology Labs and the ease of using RedLine13. He spoke at the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting. A 73 second video of the conversation has been posted on RedLine13’s YouTube channel. Read more about what other RedLine13 customers said about why they chose RedLine13 and how they’re using it. You can try RedLine13 for free.Read More →

Moving from BlazeMeter was one part of a company’s plans to save money and improve security. Renaissance fully bought into shift left. They have 400 developers and one performance engineer with the developers doing the load testing. Read more about shift left testing. This was part of their plan to save money by moving from traditional data centers to AWS. They ran a comprehensive proof of concept with RedLine13 and then chose RedLine13. RedLine13 made itRead More →

RedLine13 Customers

At the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board, there were representatives from RedLine13 customers MSD, ACT, HBO Latin America, University of California and more, who spoke about how load testing is working at their organizations. Here are some of the highlights of RedLine13 customers and our guest speaker Alexander Podelko. MSD Animal Health Intelligence Technology Labs talked about the ease of using RedLine13. ACT talked about what they like about RedLine13 when they were looking for aRead More →

LoadRunner Alternative

The University of California had been using LoadRunner for years when they decided they needed to reduce cost. Anu Manerkar spoke about needing a LoadRunner alternative and selecting RedLine13 at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting Moving from LoadRunner to RedLine13 was really good, much more than what we expected. Anu Manerikar, University of California Office of the President Her talk can be found in the RedLine13 YouTube Channel. She specifically made a point about theRead More →

Moved to RedLine13

We feel like you guys really focus on what is core and essential for performance testing, without all the glitter on top, which is awesome. Heath Meyer, ACT Lead Software Engineer at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board Listen to Heath on the RedLine13 YouTube channel talk about RedLine13 with questions from co-founder Bob Bickel at the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting, which was held virtually. They looked into BlazeMeter alternatives, mainly because of cost. ACTRead More →

Chris Adams of ThinkLogic talked about high volume tests on RedLine13 at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting. He gave an example of testing 1.5 million users in a 10 minute period with RedLine13. Listen to Chris on the RedLine13 YouTube Channel. ThinkLogic is a software development shop that has been using RedLine13 for about a year and a half. They were drawn to RedLine13 by the affordability. Chris talks in the recording about their usageRead More →

RedLine13 Customer HBO Latin America

RedLine13 provided exactly what we were trying to create. Miguel Angel Flores de Montanaro, Software Quality Control Manager, HBO Latin America speaking at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board Meeting Listen to Miguel on the RedLine13 YouTube channel as he talks about RedLine13 with questions from co-founder Bob Bickel at the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting, which was held virtually. At the meeting, there was discussion about what HBO and other RedLine13 customers want to seeRead More →

BlazeMeter vs. RedLine13

We keep hearing from companies that have left BlazeMeter. They’ve told us how expensive BlazeMeter became. And they were tired of paying so much more than they used to.  We’ve heard from former BlazeMeter customers, big and small. They said one of the following: BlazeMeter was simply too expensive BlazeMeter got expensive and they didn’t understand why BlazeMeter was going to get expensive and there was nothing they could do And there were also companies whoRead More →