We got this from a new user: “We are doing a campaign with an creative firm and a TV program. It is a real time campaign that will be live for 1 hour. The TV company ran a load test using SOASTA. The actual running of the tests was less than 2 hours. I believe there were three tests following the format below. @2500 concurrent users 15 minutes to ramp up to 2500 continue for 15 testRead More →
While RedLine offers the most scalable and lowest cost mechanism to test your web or mobile application, how do you really know what is happening in your application and your environment? New Relic has emerged as the leading tool for monitoring and understanding your application and deployment environment. As the diagram at the right shows, New Relic enables developers and operations experts to drill down in their servers and applications. You can see into your differentRead More →
We are very excited that we are the “Pick of the Week” at Programmable Web. “I’ll be curious to follow the Redline13 Zip Code Distance API, because it offers a lot of flexibility in a simple package. In addition to providing the distance between zip codes, the API can list the zip codes in a given city or give geographic data for a zip code. It can also find all zip codes within a specified radius.Read More →
There are three levels of load testing that you can do against your application. Note that when we set up spot instances to be the load agents in your Amazon account, those instances are rented for an hour at a time. This gives you plenty of time to test increasing loads with various settings on your application deployment to find the optimal level of service you need to deploy for your application. Below are the threeRead More →
The Zip Code API provides the following functions: Distance Between Zip Code API – The API allows you to quickly and easily figure out the distance between zip codes. Zip Codes in Radius API – You can use this API to find all zip codes within a given radius from another zip code. Zip Code to City and State API and Zip Code to Latitude/Longitude API – The API can convert a zip code to the primary location for the zip code. This includesRead More →
We’ve had a couple of beta testers say they do not have an AWS account on Amazon. We were kind of surprised! If you do not have an Amazon AWS account, you can sign up for one easily at http://aws.amazon.com/. Signing up is free and you will only pay for the services that are used. As an example, if you do a load test of 50,000 users for an hour the approximate cost is $2.00 and wouldRead More →
This tutorial will walk through running a RedLine13 load test with advanced options on your AWS server. If you haven’t run a RedLine13 load test yet, you can read here to Run Your First RedLine13 Load Test. Begin by logging into your account. Here are the steps for Using AWS for Load Testing with RedLine13. You can skip this if you’ve already set it up. Next click “Start Test”, and then click the “Simple Test” tab. Read More →
We met as a team last night (Stephen Sigwart, Rich Friedman and Bob Bickel) and came to agreement we would form this company. The idea sprang from our own efforts at RunSignUp to do load testing and feeling like Goldilocks – too soft/too hard, too hot, too cold. So we developed something that was just right for our Cloud architecture. We realized that this was something others might want as well – so we are generalizingRead More →
