{"id":8203,"date":"2021-07-12T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2021-07-12T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:40:43","slug":"redline13-partner-thinklogic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/redline13-partner-thinklogic\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation with RedLine13 Partner ThinkLogic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chris Baeckstrom of RedLine13 has a conversation with RedLine13 Partner ThinkLogic CEO Chris Adams. To hear the full conversation with the Chris’s, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ThinkLogic has done custom software development for 20 years but has found over the last few years that they\u2019ve been tasked with building some high volume applications, some capable of supporting up to a million simultaneous users. The first challenge has been how they validate the stability of the application and the 2nd challenge has been how they do it economically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenges of High Volume Load Testing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

RedLine13 Chris asked ThinkLogic Chris if there were any unique or surprising challenges. He responded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of our larger tests would trigger our cloud providers automated DDoS countermeasures. To resolve would often require conversations with the infrastructure providers and require exceptions to continue. With these larger tests we found it very easy to overwhelm our cloud infrastructure without ever hitting our scaling thresholds. For example RAM and CPU could be fine but you can blow through your allowable HTTP connections and bring everything to a standstill. So throughout the development and testing life cycle you will have to perform cost benefit analyses to determine whether it is better to overcome each hurdle with software optimizations or by simply adding additional infrastructure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Lessons Learned<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chris Adams shared lessons learned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n