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Test in prod FTW! However, how do you test the saturation point when dealing with production traffic? Won't you have to run your resources underprovisioned in
by cnst 5y ago
Test in prod FTW!
However, how do you test the saturation point when dealing with production traffic? Won't you have to run your resources underprovisioned in order to achieve saturation? Doesn't that degrade the quality of service?
Or are these special non-ISP Netflix Open Connect instances that are specifically meant to be used for saturation testing, with the rest of the load spilling back to EC2?
- drewg123 5y agoWe have servers in IX locations where there is a lot of traffic. Its not my area of expertise (being a kernel hacker, not a network architect), but our CDN load does not spill back to EC2. The biggest impact I have to QoE is when I crash a box, but clients are architected to be resilient against that.