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stevenjackson
January 09, 2018
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Devour The Cloud With Locust Swarms - Hands On Load Testing
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Transcript
Devour the Cloud Do you have an AWS Account?
nick @stevejxsn @nickbarendt # codemash #devour-the-cloud
[email protected]
[email protected]
Nick Barendt
Steve Jackson
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Setup AMIs http://bit.do/devour-aws
AMIs Saleor Locust ami-da98c7a0 ami-a59bc4df You can also search for
“CM2018”
If you leave early…. Remember to stop/terminate your AWS instances!
Explore Saleor (our system under test today)
What is Load Testing?
It’s often pictured this way...
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Load Testing simulates the experience of “many” concurrent users What
is Load Testing?
Load Testing is not about optimizing the per user experience
Most test tools are bad at Assets Javascript
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Needing load testing is a good problem
It’s not hard…. Resource Planning Performance Regressions Architecture Changes
Ok, so what are we focusing on?
Key Question: How many users can I have on my
site before things break?
Key Question: How many users can I add before performance
becomes unacceptable?
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Close Enough
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It’s About Tradeoffs
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Why Locust?
Simple When will this endpoint fall over?
Record/Playback Easy to get Started
Programmatic Simple -> Complex
DSL
Scales Horizontally
Scales Horizontally
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Simple Web UI
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User Signup http://bit.do/devour-signup
Buy! http://bit.do/devour-buy
User Funnel
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100% Returning Users (20%) Find Cart Buy 80% 75%
25% 100% New Users (80%) Visit Cart Buy 97% 50%
Find
25% 100% User Funnel Visit Cart Buy 97% 50% Find
100% Find Cart Buy 80% 75% New 80% Old 20%
Weigh Tasks http://bit.do/devour-funnel
Find a Baseline
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Identify Bottleneck
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Saleor Architecture
Eliminate Bottleneck
Database Laziness Index Connection Pooling
Caching
Async
Current Architecture
Architecture with Caching
View Caching http://bit.do/devour-caching
Find new Baseline
Next Steps Choose Your Own Adventure http://bit.do/devour-advanced
Thanks! REMEMBER TO SHUT DOWN YOUR MACHINES! @stevejxsn @nickbarendt