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On HTTP Load Testing
————————————————————0. Consistency.1. One Machine, One Job.2. Check the Network.3. Remove OS Limitations.4. Don’t Test the Client.5. Overload is not Capacity.6. Thirty Seconds isn’t a Test.7. Do More than Hello World.8. Not Just Averages.9. Publish it All.10. Try Different Tools.
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Blitz – make load and performance testing fun
Blitz is a fresh approach to load and performance testing on the cloud. Most other load testing tools were built in an era of complex environments and the waterfall model. With so many PaaS offerings, developers are embracing newer, simpler and easiler technologies like Sinatra, Rails and node.js to simply git push up to the cloud.
We wanted to bring about the development agility to load and performance testing to help you scale out your app. Whether its a location-aware iPhone® or an Android® app or your favorite RESTful API, you will find Blitz to be easy, affordable and quicker to get results.
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December 7, 2011 