Dyci Sfregola

Most systems don’t fail all at once. They slow down, back up, and quietly break when demand hits from every direction at once. What passed testing last week suddenly struggles under peak volume, overlapping processes, or hours of sustained use. This white paper challenges the idea that one type of performance test is enough. It shows how load, stress, and endurance testing work together to reveal what your system will actually do when it matters. Because confidence doesn’t come from passing a test. It comes from knowing how your system behaves under pressure. What You’ll Learn: Why performance issues slip through even when testing is in place What load testing really proves, and where it falls short How stress testing exposes breaking points before production does Why endurance testing uncovers slow failures most teams miss How to combine all three approaches into a practical, repeatable strategy What performance testing looks like across real ERP, WMS, and supply chain workflows How to move from one-time testing to continuous performance confidence If your systems only pass tests under ideal conditions, you’re still guessing. Download the white paper to see how a layered performance testing strategy helps you find issues early, fix them…

written by Deborah Dull, on site at GreenBiz 2026   I spent today in a room full of people who think about waste for a living. And the word that kept coming up had nothing to do with recycling. It was sovereignty. Here is the situation. The United States imports 95% of its critical mineral supply. Lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, the stuff inside every battery, every semiconductor, every electric motor. We do not make it, we do not mine much of it, and we do not control the supply chain that delivers it. That is not an energy policy problem. That is a national security problem. Now here is the part that should make you put down your coffee. A ton of smartphones contains dramatically more gold than a ton of mined ore. We are talking about concentrations that make urban mining look like a gold rush compared to digging in the ground. And yet the recovery rate for those materials, once a phone leaves its first owner, drops to around 13%. We are losing roughly 80% of the value sitting in devices right now, in drawers, in closets, in landfills. E-waste is also the fastest growing waste stream…