Performance Testing Cloud Hosted Applications

re: Performance Testing Cloud Hosted Applications

Riham Selim - MSFT — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:31:44 GMT

@Micky: let me clarify this a little bit, having your own isolated environment is definitely better than having an environment where you share the resources with other tenants where co-tenancy might really harm your performance.

@Barry: I agree with that, but you also need to find the right balance between duplicating production and monitoring it - sometimes it is not possible to duplicate production environment even if you duplicate the traffic.

re: Performance Testing Cloud Hosted Applications

Barry Jones — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:52:10 GMT

Good post. Unfortunately no amount of running scripts can compensate for testing with live traffic. Parallel Proxy (http://www.parallelproxy.com) allows you to duplicate production traffic to test servers and compare responses.

re: Performance Testing Cloud Hosted Applications

Micky D — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:14:00 GMT

"The cloud is designed for scale, not for performance!"

Well no, an ideal system is architected for "scalability" in mind and if that goal is achieved "performance" is the byproduct of additional compute.