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Results of a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll (PDF) suggest that Americans are warming to Barack Obama — at least if they’re moderates.
Poll respondents were split, 48 to 48 percent, on whether they approved or disapproved “of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president.” Sixty percent of moderates approved, up from 55 percent in November to 60 percent. The rise among moderates is offset by a drop in the president’s approval rating among liberals, who generally opposed the recent tax-cut compromise.
Still, CNN Polling Director Keating Holland suggests the moderate bump carries positive news for the president: “That’s important if Obama plans to borrow a page from former President Bill Clinton’s playbook and try to win re-election by ‘triangulating’ between the leaders of both parties on the Hill.”
Tue Dec 21, 8:24 am ET
FIRST TICKET: Census release; John Thune’s ambitions confuse N.H. GOP
Welcome to First Ticket, a morning snapshot of the day’s political news.
• Today’s census numbers will dictate the number of U.S. House seats per state–and which party has a political advantage. (The Fix)
• Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) defends his recent run of skipped votes. (Politico)
• Following the collapse of Ted Stevens’ case, is the Justice Department weak on corruption? (New York Times)
• Minnesota’s Democratic Gov.-elect Mark Dayton just found out that Tim Pawlenty left him some state Medicaid issues. (Minnesota Public Radio)
Mon Dec 20, 4:07 pm ET
Census update to spell bad news for Democrats
Population growth in the Southern and Western regions of the United States means Democrats are unlikely to hear much good news at tomorrow’s announcement of new Census data.
A glance at the Census’ interactive map (below) shows the largest population gains in the South and West, which would benefit Republicans as states prepare to use Tuesday’s data to begin the process of reapportionment.
Mon Dec 20, 1:55 pm ET
Rep. Pence looks less likely for presidential bid
The odds of Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) running for president in 2012 just got a little longer.
Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman (R-Ind.) announced Monday that she will not run for governor in 2012. And that leaves a hole likely to be filled by Pence, Indiana Republicans tell The Fix’s Aaron Blake. “Lots of moves and more than idle chitchat lead me to say with confidence he’s running for governor,” a Republican insider told Blake.
Pence is a favorite of social conservatives and is believed to be a potential presidential candidate. He has previously said he won’t make any announcement regarding his future political plans until after New Year’s.
Mon Dec 20, 11:36 am ET
Sen. Joe Manchin votes against Dems (if at all)
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has been in Congress for just five weeks, but he is already establishing himself as a clear outsider — as well as a very, very busy man.
When the Senate first voted Dec. 9 to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, Manchin was the only Democrat to oppose it.
And this past weekend when the Senate took up DADT again, Manchin skipped the vote to begin his Christmas festivities.
Mon Dec 20, 10:11 am ET
Health care law’s opponents aim to amend Constitution
Opponents of the health care reform law are starting to rally behind an effort to amend the Constitution in order to secure its repeal, the New York Times reports.
Virginia lawmakers, including incoming House Majority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor, have teamed up with tea party groups to advocate a “repeal amendment” that would allow states to overturn any act of Congress. The effort faces major hurdles in Congress — where members would need to vote for this check against themselves in order to advance the measure — but it does reflect a growing push to limit federal power and increase state autonomy throughout the country.
Mon Dec 20, 9:07 am ET
DNC: No favorite cities among 2012 Democratic convention finalists
The battle to host the 2012 Democratic convention is down to four finalist cities: Charlotte, N.C., and St. Louis, Minneapolis and Cleveland. The Democratic National Committee hasn’t yet settled on a winner, despite some early reports to the contrary.
Politico reported Friday that Charlotte and St. Louis are the top two finalists. But a DNC official, who was not authorized to speak on the record because the decision-making process is ongoing, told The Ticket that “there’s no truth whatsoever to the Politico story” and that all four cities are still in contention.
Mon Dec 20, 8:28 am ET
FIRST TICKET: Senate debates START; a pardon for Billy the Kid?
Welcome to First Ticket, a morning snapshot of the day’s political news.
• Can Obama live up to the reputation as a global statesman bestowed his Nobel Peace Prize? (The Caucus)
• Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will not support the START nuclear treaty with Russia. (Washington Post)
• The food safety bill won passage after an earlier technical error. (The Note)
• Charlie Wilson’s FBI file is revealed. (The Hill)
• Six out of 10 Americans wouldn’t vote for Sarah Palin. (ABC)
Fri Dec 17, 5:18 pm ET
LAST TICKET: Lieberman sticks with Indy label; Rahm Emanuel’s crawl space … revealed
Here are the stories we took note of today but didn’t give the full blog treatment:
• Republicans and Democrats can stop their wooing — Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will run as an independent if he launches a 2012 re-election bid at all. (The Hill)
• The first family heads to Hawaii without Obama. (The Caucus)
• Photos of Rahm Emanuel’s crawl space reveal that he really likes the New York Times. (Daily Intel)
• The Senate will vote against “Don’t ask, don’t tell” tomorrow. (CNN)
Fri Dec 17, 4:59 pm ET
Obama signs tax-cut package, advocates era of compromise
President Obama signed the $858 billion tax-cut compromise into law Friday, hailing the bill’s passage as a major sign of bipartisan consensus in Washington.
But don’t expect giant celebrations.
“Candidly speaking, there are some elements of this legislation that I don’t like,” Obama said prior to the signing. “There are some elements that members of my party don’t like. There’s some elements that Republicans here today don’t like. That’s the nature of compromise – yielding on something that each of cares about to move forward on something that all of us care about.”
Scalability Testing – 7 Tips For Improvement
by: Mark Trellis
Systems that work well during development, deployed on a small scale, can fail to meet performance goals when the deployment is scaled up to support real levels of use.
An apposite example of this comes from a major blue chip company that recently outsourced the development of an innovative high technology platform. Though development was behind schedule this was deemed acceptable. The system gradually passed through functional elements of the user acceptance testing and eventually it looked like a deployment date could be set. But then the supplier started load testing and scalability testing. There followed a prolonged and costly period of architectural changes and changes to the system requirements. The supplier battled heroically to provide an acceptable system, until finally the project was mothballed.
This is not an isolated case. IT folklore abounds with similar tales. From ambulance dispatch systems to web-sites for the electronic submission of tax returns, systems fail as they scale and experience peak demands. All of these projects appear not to have identified and ordered the major risks they faced. This is a fundamental stage of risk based testing, and applies equally to scalability testing or load testing as it does to functionality testing or business continuity testing. With no risk assessment they did not recognise that scaling was amongst the biggest risks, far more so that delivering all the functionality
Recent trends towards Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) attempt to address the issue of scalability but also introduce new issues. Incorporating externally provided services into your overall solution means that your ability to scale now depends upon these external system operate under load. Assuring this is a demanding task and sadly the load testing and stress testing here is often overlooked.
Better practice is to start the development of a large scale software system with its performance clearly in mind, particularly scalability testing, volume testing and load testing. To create this performance testing focus:
1. Research and quantify the data volumes and transaction volumes the target market implies. Some of these figures can be eye openers and help the business users realise the full scale of the system. This alone can lead to reassessment of the priority of many features.
2, Determine the way features could be presented to users and the system structured in order to make scaling of the system easier. Do not try and have the same functionality you would have for a single user desktop solution provide an appropriate scalable alternative.
3. Recognise that an intrinsic part of the development process is load testing at representative scale on each incremental software release. This is continual testing, focusing on the biggest risk to the project: the ability to operate at full scale.
4. Ensure load testing is adequate both in scope and rigour. Load testing is not just about measuring response times with a performance test. The load testing programme needs to include other types of load testing including stress testing, reliability testing, and endurance testing.
5. Don’t forget that failures will occur. Large scale systems generally include server clusters with fail-over behaviour. Failure testing, fail-over testing and recovery testing carried out on representative scale systems operating under load should be included.
6. Don’t forget catastrophic failure could occur. For large scale problems, disaster testing and disaster recovery testing should be carried out at representative scale and loads. These activities can be considered the technical layers of business continuity testing.
7. Recognise external services if you use them. Where you are adopting an SOA approach and are dependent on external services you need to be certain that the throughput and turnaround time on these services will remain acceptable as your system scales and its demands increase. A smart system architecture will include a graceful response and fall-back operation should the external service behaviour deteriorate or fail.
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Mark Trellis is an experienced consultant working in performance testing, scalability testing and load testing. For further information visit: http://www.acutest.co.uk or http://www.acutest.co.uk/performance-testing.html
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