Archive for February 2012
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Load testing by replaying Apache httpd access logs
No comments · Posted by Adam Lundrigan in CDLI, Web Development
Two weeks ago I oversaw the launch of our new public web site. The whole exercise was an unparalleled failure; as soon as the first peak load hit the server took a prolonged lie-down, and so the site was generally unreachable for end users. What went wrong? I didn’t adequately load test the application to [...]
access log · apache · Apache HTTPD · httpd · Javascript · load · Node.js · NodeJS · testing

