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How MySpace Generates Enough Load To Test Itself

Posted by timothy on from the advertises-free-riding-lessons-and-crack dept.

An anonymous reader points out this article about "...how a big site like MySpace uses thousands of cloud computing cores to do performance testing on its live site. There are some really great numbers in there from the performance tests, like generating 16GB/second of bandwidth and 77,000 hits/second during testing (not including the live traffic on the site at the time)."

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  1. They did it by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Informative

    by outsourcing to This Company. In additon, This Company used Stuff to do Things. After initial tests, This Company did Other Things. This Company is a leader in stuff, especially utilizing their software This Stuff. Try This Stuff Today!

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  2. Re:Wait, what? by Volante3192 · · Score: 3, Informative

    They were adding 77k hits/sec to their live traffic, not testing against 77k hits/sec.

    I.e., if 4 mil live users were hitting MySpace during the test, MySpace's servers were actually feeling the impact of 5 mil.

  3. Re:Wait, what? by Monsieur_F · · Score: 3, Informative

    Some artists still use it to announce their next concerts

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