{"id":693,"date":"2015-09-03T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2022-01-03T20:01:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T01:01:11","slug":"7-how-it-should-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/7-how-it-should-work\/","title":{"rendered":"#7 How it should work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Open Source Load Testing presentation\u00a0http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/richardfriedman\/open-source-load-testing<\/p>\n<p>In the previous (#6 How it Used To Work), I told a story of\u00a0how we put our desktops, yes desktops, to work. However, in today&#8217;s world, there are many more options. \u00a0 You can rent agents from other\u00a0commercial load testing\u00a0clouds or you could use your own cloud to generate the test load. \u00a0Each team can now have their own environment and the dependency friction gets removed.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Sigwart (CTO at RunSignUp.com and founder at RedLine13)\u00a0needed to meet the requirements of scaling to <a href=\"https:\/\/runsignup.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/11\/50000-registered-users-in-7-minutes\/\">50,000 registrations in ten minutes<\/a>. \u00a0Knowing that this would be a very iterative process and the commercial agents would be\u00a0above his budget, he built the original RedLine13 to support &#8216;How it should work&#8217;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>You. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>No minions&#8230; just you launching a multi-thousand user load test.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Test Plan.<\/strong><\/em> The process of creating a load test plan has improved over the years (still can be better), but that should be all you need to start the process.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Cloud. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Where your agents will be created and scale to your requirements<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Servers.<\/strong><\/em> Your staging or production environment, and if you are\u00a0following strong dev-ops practices, the task of having a mirror environment could be easier than ever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The goal of load testing is to find performance bottlenecks, the act of load testing should get out of the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/OSLT_HowItShouldWork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/OSLT_HowItShouldWork.jpg\" alt=\"OSLT_HowItShouldWork\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/OSLT_HowItShouldWork.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/OSLT_HowItShouldWork-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/OSLT_HowItShouldWork-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/OSLT_HowItShouldWork-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/OSLT_HowItShouldWork-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/OSLT_HowItShouldWork-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/OSLT_HowItShouldWork-1568x1176.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Open Source Load Testing presentation\u00a0http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/richardfriedman\/open-source-load-testing In the previous (#6 How it Used To Work), I told a story of\u00a0how we put our desktops, yes desktops, to work. However, in today&#8217;s world, there are many more options. \u00a0 You can rent agents from other\u00a0commercial load testing\u00a0clouds or you could use your own cloud to generate the test load. \u00a0Each team can now have their own environment and the dependency friction gets removed. Stephen Sigwart (CTO<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/7-how-it-should-work\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[88,126,318],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-richardfriedman","4":"post-693","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blog","9":"post_tag-aws","10":"post_tag-cloud","11":"post_tag-load-testing"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#7 How it should work - RedLine13<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/7-how-it-should-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#7 How it should work - RedLine13\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the Open Source Load Testing presentation\u00a0http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/richardfriedman\/open-source-load-testing In the previous (#6 How it Used To Work), I told a story of\u00a0how we put our desktops, yes desktops, to work. 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