In the old days I helped create Mambo which became Jomla. These days I'm at Keynote. We’re…
* You may have heard about the Target site failure over in the US….* Target did site re-build from the ground up (had to get off Amazon platform)Huge array of top tier systems integrators (along with IBM, Oracle, others)… DID some load testing, but NOT for the situation Marketing was spending $$$$’s on to draw a crowd(Missoni sells for $1000’s typically but Target put together items starting at $50)
* We follow Target.com for several of our public indexes* We were able to capture the USER EXPERIENCE throughout the outage, which lasted over 24 hoursPretty huge… site as big as that turning away 93% of all users the first day and still turning away 50% even 24 hours later…The blog post on how things evolved that day makes a pretty good readWe’ve got some copies at our booth or you can just hit bit.ly/faildoggie to read it on your laptop
* There’s no reason to not have realistic load testing from out side the firewall at your fingertips* I thought I’d share a scenario with youI’ve conducted load testing of my site but this morning it occurred to me that I hadn’t tested for a comment stormLet’s jump in and configure another test and run it…
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Test perspective, which you just sawComes from 3 locationsCan scale up to 1.5M page/views/hourWe also have LoadPro20 locations150M page/views/hour
That was fast, so if you have questions, come drop by our booth…