Nicole van der Hoeven

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    2023

  • 2023-Apr-03
    Frontend vs. backend: How to plan your performance testing strategy
  • 2023-Jan-12
    Guide to Load Testing Websites
  • 2022

  • 2022-Feb-01
    Realistic Calendar Blocking for the Agile Knowledge Worker
  • 2022-Jan-31
    5 Things the Obsidian Templater Plugin Can Do That Templates Can't
  • 2022-Jan-29
    10 Mandatory Obsidian Plugins for Every Software Engineer
  • 2022-Jan-25
    Why All Roads Lead to Testing
  • 2022-Jan-24
    How to Actually Remember What You Learn, for Engineers with Long Reading Lists
  • 2022-Jan-23
    My Workflow for Making Tech and Travel Videos Online
  • 2022-Jan-22
    How to Do What Kind of Testing When: Testing Types by Scope
  • 2022-Jan-18
    How to Use Executors in k6: Adapting Load Test Workload Models to Production
  • 2022-Jan-17
    Testing tool cheat sheet for load testers who don't just care about numbers
  • 2022-Jan-15
    Building a DM's Brain Attic
  • 2022-Jan-13
    Financial Independence Isn't Just for Old People
  • 2022-Jan-12
    What Tabletop Games Teach Us About Application Perfomance
  • 2022-Jan-11
    The Tester's Toolbox Is Flawed
  • 2022-Jan-10
    Obsidian for the Uninitiated
  • 2022-Jan-09
    5 Ways to Use Obsidian as a Software Engineer
  • 2022-Jan-08
    Take Notes, Not Tools
  • 2021

  • 2021-Sep-30
    Non-Lazy DMs use Obsidian for D&D
  • 2021-Aug-16
    How to import Shortform highlights to Obsidian via Readwise
  • 2021-Aug-13
    Meet the Grafana Labs team: Nicole Van Der Hoeven, Developer Advocate at k6
  • 2021-Aug-10
    The easiest way to sync Kindle highlights to Obsidian: Readwise to Obsidian Redux
  • 2021-Aug-09
    How I use Obsidian for D&D - Player's Edition
  • 2021-Jul-12
    Gear I Use
  • 2021-Jul-12
    My WFH desk and office setup
  • 2021-Jun-02
    Downloading files uploaded to Roam Research for use with Obsidian
  • 2021-May-24
    End-to-End Guide for Load Testing
  • 2021-May-18
    How I Use Obsidian at Work
  • 2021-Mar-02
    Presentation Slides as Code
  • 2021-Feb-06
    Readwise to Obsidian
  • 2021-Jan-29
    Comparing k6 and JMeter for load testing
  • 2021-Jan-26
    Python for Everybody Specialization
  • 2020

  • 2020-Dec-16
    Cuándo JMeter no alcanza: Pruebas de carga simulando navegadores
  • 2020-Dec-15
    Taking Notes on a Video: my YiNote to Roam Research Workflow
  • 2020-Dec-14
    How I use Roam Research for D&D: Session Notes
  • 2020-Nov-23
    Week of Testing: Intro
  • 2020-Oct-07
    How to Become a Load Tester
  • 2020-Sep-21
    How to Write a Load Test Plan
  • 2020-Aug-18
    Pros and Cons of API load testing
  • 2020-Aug-13
    Performance testing the Dutch coronavirus hotline
  • 2020-Aug-06
    Ask a Flooder 20: How can fear affect application performance?
  • 2020-Jul-22
    Ask a Flooder 18: How do I load test video streaming with JMeter?
  • 2020-Jul-04
    Performanceverbeteringen voor de coronalijn: de kracht van angst
  • 2020-Jun-18
    Ask a Flooder 17: How do I use unique test data on Element?
  • 2020-Jun-09
    Ask a Flooder 16: How do I use test data with Element?
  • 2020-May-28
    Load testing on the Google Cloud Platform
  • 2020-May-12
    Ask a Flooder 15: How do I install Element?
  • 2020-May-05
    Innovation in Isolation
  • 2020-Apr-30
    On-premise load testing advantages and disadvantages
  • 2020-Apr-28
    Ask a Flooder 13: How do you do mobile load testing?
  • 2020-Apr-23
    Browser-based load testing in 2020
  • 2020-Apr-21
    Ask a Flooder 12: Puppeteer vs Selenium: which one is better for load testing?
  • 2020-Apr-07
    Introducing Flood Agent: standalone infrastructure for load testing
  • 2020-Mar-31
    Ask a Flooder 09: What are the best tools for load testing?
  • 2020-Mar-26
    Ask a Flooder 08: Why is concurrent users an ambiguous measure of throughput?
  • 2020-Mar-19
    Ask a Flooder 06: How to record traffic from a mobile app with JMeter
  • 2020-Mar-09
    FOMO and performance testing: Why Robinhood went down
  • 2020-Mar-06
    Load Testing Lessons from the Iowa Caucus
  • 2020-Feb-24
    How AirTasker uses Ruby JMeter and Flood for their load testing
  • 2020-Feb-21
    Mobile Load Testing on the Cloud
  • 2019

  • 2019-Sep-26
    Load Testing Tutorial: Server Monitoring
  • 2019-Jun-19
    Start with Why: How to Write Requirements for API Load Testing
  • 2018

  • 2018-Dec-20
    Performance Testing Interview Questions, Part 3: LoadRunner
  • 2018-Dec-20
    Performance Testing Interview Questions, Part 2: JMeter
  • 2018-Dec-20
    Performance Testing Interview Questions, Part 1: General
  • 2018-Nov-23
    Tips and Tricks for Using Flood Element
  • 2018-Nov-08
    Prepare for Viral Videos With Flood Element
  • 2018-Aug-28
    Mitad de allá y mitad de aquí: reflexiones de una políglota multinacional
  • 2018-Mar-28
    Manufactured Chaos: How Netflix Does Performance Testing
  • 2018-Feb-24
    Why AirBNB Plus Could Make or Break AirBNB
  • 2018-Feb-23
    Should I Upgrade to JMeter 4.0? 5 Reasons to Upgrade
  • 2018-Feb-22
    How I Became Financially Independent in 5 Years
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