Kitchen Soap

WebOps-related mailing lists have always had a problem with this vague term, and I suspect that commercial vendors exploit this confusion.
Wikipedia gives a pretty vague definition:
“…is the process of testing or tracking (monitoring) how end-users interact with a website or web application.”
People use the term to describe lots of things that pertain to [...]

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No matter what sort of capacity planning tricks you think you have up your sleeve, if it doesn’t involve the procurement process, then you can’t call it planning.
Procurement is the part that happens after you know what kind and how much capacity you need. It’s the part where you, someone in some other group like [...]

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