My Web Performance Dirty Secrets

MyWeb Performance Dirty Secrets Fred Beringer – SOASTA November 2011 – Velocity Europe Birds of a Feather

Fred §  Java and smartcard @ Sun Microsystems (Nice )§  eCommerce platform, DB2 Replication, BI @ IBM (San Jose,CA )§  Software Testing director @ Experian (Monte Carlo )§  Growing the hottest software testing startup @ SOASTA (Nice )

My goal today STORIES SOMETHING FOR YOU TO TAKE BACK HOME

Loan origination Traffic explosionCollection system •  Third-party •  Web Application & ServicesCredit scoring •  Multiple data sources •  Insane amount of data

What is required today to test effectively performance of web applications?

Real time analysis of performance data

AFFORDABILITY

Ready for some pain?

I lied …

They are strugglingLeading French eCommerce Hot product. Scarcity. Very low price = recipe for #fail •  DNS Servers down 10 minutes before and 20 minutes after 7am. •  Firewall down. •  Varnishes down. •  Ad Server on it knee slowing down the whole site. Peak: 39k/sec – 800k hits/secs1000 happy customers. 99 000 angry ones.

PERFORMANCE & LOAD TESTINGREVOLUTION

What’s the big deal?

#1Affordable platform for infinite load

#3Global and realistic traffic

#4Find the $%&# needle!

In your code

In your infrastructure

Outside your firewall

Objective: Add 1 million users to the live traffic to stress thenew video features.•  800 Amazon EC2 large instances used to generate load (3200 cloud computing cores) – Spawned in 30 minutes!•  Real Scenario: Searching/watching/rating music videos, adding videos to favorites, and viewing artist’s channel pages, etc.•  Transfer rate of 16 gigabits per second•  6 terabytes of data transferred per hour•  Over 77k hits per second, not including live traffic

Results: Understood the changes to be made to support the extra traffic.•  Worked with Akamai to scale some of their local data centers and optimized the distribution of assets.•  Made on-the-fly change to their infrastructure to fit the extra traffic.

WT%$? Fortune 50 Advanced TechnologyJava (Struts), Oracle, Global & Distributed Data Centers Objective: 172k Concurrent Users TROUBLES

2 weeks laterAWESOME!

RECAP You have NO IDEA how the whole application’s ecosystem will behave under load

RECAP You have a cheap way today to test at expected AND unexpected volume

RECAP There are NO REASONS today not to run performance and load tests continuously during development and on production

ü  Used everyday by our performance CloudTest Lite engineers (and developers!)ü  HTML5, AJAX, REST, SOAP, FLEX, FLASH, etc. ü  Web and Mobile onlyü  Jenkins integration Download it FREE today!

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My Web Performance Dirty Secrets

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