Many tools exist around the globe to get performance data for a HTTP connection but we can consider them as stress tools: They focus on launching an amount of request and output statistical aggregations of latency, throughput and rate. ApacheBenchmark (ab), wrk, httperf, we regularly use these software for what they bring but they also ...

Nowadays, most of the cloud vendors provide different solutions to store your data and exploit them from other services. In virtual machine realm, it is often admitted that block storage brings a flexible consumption and local device ensures a low latency. At Cloud Mercato we continuously test and report storage metrics and beyond performance announced ...

Have you ever thought which provider will give the best latency to your users ? Not a theoretical value but an accurate metric representing a real end-to-end connection. At Cloud Mercato our platform allow us to manage cloud components all around the globe. VPS, virtual machines, buckets or CDN, we can easily setup worldwide client-server ...

There is a widely held idea in the Internet that a written snippet will be universally valid to test and produce comparable results from any machine. Said like that, this assertion is globally false but a piece of code, valid in a context, can do a lot of road on the web and easily fool ...

That's make almost 3 years our analysis platform runs on computers all around the globe and automagically collects stuff about cloud market such as locations, instance sizes and more important price and performance. We are actually close to 60 providers, counting IaaS, PaaS or CDNs as vendors and this is a huge stack of knowledge ...

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