Per a recent posting on programmable web, the number of Web API’s has crossed the one thousand mark, an important milestone in the web world. The example posts mentioned below support the increasing importance of having a Web API.
1. Sixty percent of eBay product listings come from their API
2. Twitter’s API processes 10 [...]
The value propositions of monitoring a Websphere MQ environment (or the Queue Manager network) are mentioned below:
1. Provide business service visibility i.e. how many cross sell offers (messages) were processed?
2. Precise measurement of the Queue Manager throughput for capacity and performance planning and architecture fine tuning.
3. Helps in troubleshooting issues related to Queue Manager.
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A load test, when conducted before a web site goes live, helps in detecting and responding to scalability and performance problems much before the user is aware of such issues. Executing a load test from the cloud offers the following benefits:
1. Zero administration costs that would have otherwise incurred due to setting up an infrastructure [...]