Jobhirehub – web app load test
About This Project
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Client was looking for someone with a LoadImpact account (or similar) with expertise expert in performing web stress tests. They wanted to Simulate thousands of users to a website that is currently in development and generate a report that reviews the bottlenecks and makes recommendations to improve performance.
The main objective of the project was to get answers of the following questions:
- The max number of concurrent users that platform can support on a single server?
- Bottleneck (DB? Network? Memory? CPU?)
- Low hanging improvements to make to improve performance?
- Reliability of load balancer and auto scaling implementation
Proposed solution and execution
After understanding the complete requirements and business goals, Fleek IT team proposed an cost-effective and reliable solutions using following technical stack
- Jmeter – an open source tool designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance
- Jmeter plugins – a custom set of plugins for Jmeter to generate additional reports and, provide flexibility in scripting to generate more realistic load and many more features
- AWS EC2 instance – Load generation server
- Blazemeter or redline13 as a load generation cloud
Fleek team worked closely with development and devops team during test executions in order to monitor and optimizing server infrastructure based upon the load test results.