Comments on: My Blog Is Under Siege http://22ideastreet.com/blog/2009/12/15/my-blog-is-under-siege/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Wes Winham http://22ideastreet.com/blog/2009/12/15/my-blog-is-under-siege/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Wes Winham Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:39:51 +0000 http://22ideastreet.com/blog/?p=876#comment-236 Load testing is just flat-out fun. It has the same warm-fuzzy associated with it as running a big test suite and seeing a nice big "OK 201/201" or whatever. It's something in software where we can be 100% sure that things are better. It's also pretty awesome that we have such great free tools to test things and improve performance. Nginx as a reverse proxy, memcached for avoiding database IO, non-relational database and various HTTP proxies for skipping the whole thing. It would definitely be a fun problem to actually need to solve. Load testing is just flat-out fun. It has the same warm-fuzzy associated with it as running a big test suite and seeing a nice big “OK 201/201″ or whatever. It’s something in software where we can be 100% sure that things are better.

It’s also pretty awesome that we have such great free tools to test things and improve performance. Nginx as a reverse proxy, memcached for avoiding database IO, non-relational database and various HTTP proxies for skipping the whole thing. It would definitely be a fun problem to actually need to solve.

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