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How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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The Role of Recording in Load Testing Tools

Alex Podelko

An interesting discussion started around a very good post Open Source Load Testing Tool Review by Ragnar Lönn. What I’m looking for primarily is functionality that supports load test automation. But I don’t think the traditional, complex load test scenario is suitable for automation.

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Tutorial: Guide to automated SRE-driven performance engineering

Dynatrace

Firstly, start by installing the Dynatrace OneAgent on the hosts where you’ll be running your application test. If you have a distributed environment with multiple servers hosting your webservers, app servers, and database, I suggest you install the OneAgent on all these servers to get full end-to-end visibility.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

The scope of functional testing was limited to the already setup test scenarios, but we would never be able to replicate the variety of device, language and locale combinations used by millions of our users across the globe. Replay Testing Enter replay testing.

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Understanding the True Cost of Client-Side A/B Testing

Tim Kadlec

From a convenience perspective, running client-side tests is significantly easier to do than server-side testing. With server-side testing, you need developer resources to create different experiments. Edge computing introduces a programmable layer between your server or CDN and the folks using your site.

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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. What Are the Benefits of Performance Testing? There are many common issues that performance testing can uncover, such as bottlenecks.