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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)."
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MySpace is wise to do this kind of testing and load balancing. You never know when a twelfth person might attempt to connect to the site, throwing their carefully laid plans into total chaos.
I wonder how much add revenue they generated from all those impressions?
does testing on production increase your page views?
Im a gamer, not a grammer major. This post is full of spelling and grammer mistakes.
That's why they have to simulate a bunch of fake people using myspace to do load testing.
To be fair, they're more intelligent than the real people using myspace.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
I'm pretty sure this test was just for nostalgic purposes:
MySpace Admin #1: Remember when we used to have millions of hits per hour?
MySpace Admin #2: Yeah... those were the days. I was, like, a rockstar to my friends.
MySpace Admin #1: Yeah, my friends thought I had the coolest job in the world, working for MySpace.
MySpace Admin #1 and #2: *sigh*
MySpace Admin #2:...hey - I know! We could pay some company to run a load test, it'll be just like the good ol' days!
MySpace Admin #1: Yeah!!
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
MySpace Engineer: Which brings us to the issue of load testing.
MySpace Exec: So do it.
MySpace Engineer: Well, we can't.
MySpace Exec: Am I missing something here? You just got done showing how stupid our users are. So just simulate them.
MySpace Engineer: Look, sir, with all due respect, we can put lol-bots up to post crap it's just that we have no way of mimicking that amount of garbage.
MySpace Exec: Well how much is it?
MySpace Engineer: Let me remind you, our previous slides showed you the magic of the MySpace machine--millions of users putting garbage in with the result being unadulterated horse shit flying out of the site. But to load test we need a lot of garbage. Several billion metric tonnes of garbage. Otherwise we just wouldn't produce the same amount of browser destroying horse shit we produce at peak loads.
MySpace Exec: Have you spoken with the City of New York?
MySpace Engineer: Sir, twenty five New York Cities wouldn't produce the amount of garbage we need.
MySpace Exec: Holy shit.
MySpace Engineer: Yes, this indeed requires a shitstack of biblical proportions.
MySpace Exec: What're we gonna do?
MySpace Engineer: Well, to solve this problem we turned to the motherload of bullshit. The one thing that everyone keeps endlessly spewing garbage about.
MySpace Exec: The Cloud!
MySpace Engineer: Bingo.
My work here is dung.