[LRUG] e-petitions site

[Aanand Prasad]

 Though I've not yet used it to properly put a site through its paces, I like the convenience of http://blitz.io/ a lot, and sort-of-like the UI. There's a gem for running it from the command-line too.


On Friday, 5 August 2011 at 09:47, Mickael Riga wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Well, the simple use of `ab` utility already gives a lot of informations.
> The most difficult thing is to predict your success and what is gonna be a "high" level.
> Anyway it will always be harder to build a high volume website in Ruby and especially in Ruby on Rails.
> I am sure that most of the time, the really high consuming bit could be placed in a separate faster middleware dedicated to a specific task.
> Things like APIs I mean.
> But like you, I don't know what went wrong in that case.
> 
> mig
> 
> 
> On 5 Aug 2011, at 09:17, James Cumming wrote:
> > Hi All
> > 
> > Newspapers this morning report that the e-petitions site crashed on launch, due to high volume (1,000 visitors a minute registering proposals) . Just wondering if it would be worth while investigating this further as to why this happened and how to avoid something like this happening in future RoR projects. 
> > 
> > What's the best to test a site for high volume?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > James Cumming, CFA
> > 
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