How MySpace Generates Enough Load To Test Itself

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)."

Comments

Wait, what?

[girlintraining]

The real news here is that people still use myspace. -_-

16GB/second is not the same as 16 gigabits per sec

[billrp]

/. people should know better, especially anonymous readers

while the article is biased, most of it is true

[mcguyver]

The article was written by an employee of the company that sold their testing software/services to MySpace. Of course they're going to have glowing reviews about their testing tools. With that said the author is right. Capacity testing in production is needed for high availability sites. Verifying your real time monitoring tools is also important.