RedLine recently passed the stringent requirements of the CloudBees Technology Partner Program. You can see an overview as well as a detailed integration write-up. One of the main benefits is that as developers use CloudBees to develop-test-deploy their app there is now a very low cost way to estimate the proper configuration.  And with CloudBees you can either set-up Autoscaling or tune your configuration to the size that you need. Since the cost of running loadRead More →

RedLine has recently passed the stringent conditions for the Amazon AWS partner Program.  You can see our listing at http://www.aws-partner-directory.com/PartnerDirectory/PartnerDetail?Name=RedLine13. All RedLine services run on Amazon.  Additionally the RedLine Load Testing service is designed to efficiently start and stop Spot Instances on a customer’s own AWS account with no upcharge.Read More →

RedLine13 recently started using Mashape to offer a ZipCode API for developers to easily include distance, radius and City lookup easily within their applications.  So far it has been used in a variety of both Mobile and Web applications.  The use cases range from: Major retailer calculating the distance to each store from a shoppers home address Alumni Networking to find other graduates from the same college within a certain radius City/State lookup to auto-fill anRead More →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →