What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer

Re:What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer by sunnyam on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:59AM (#14901300)

Do you know of any way of testing your website to see how many concurrent users it can handle?

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Re:What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer by shakna on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @12:55PM (#14902804)

Siege [0], is my go-to. Easy to add to CI, because its on most platforms, and has decent output configs. You can vary headers and pages to hit, and how long connections get held open, or just reject them. And of course, it has great concurrency.

It can bring down most servers that aren't configured to prevent DOS attacks, like naive nginx or Apache configs. Usually somewhere between 5-10mins.

[0] https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/

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Re:What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer by shorsher on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:10AM (#14901468)

Check out something like locust[0]. It's a web load testing framework in python.

[0]:http://locust.io/

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Re:What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer by Mikushi on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:11AM (#14901479)

http://locust.io/ for example

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Re:What I've Learned So Far as a Programmer by autokad on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @12:25PM (#14902427)

a long long long time ago (~2009) i used jmeter. it spawns aws instances and pegs your website in ways of your choosing. by now I am sure they got something even more advanced

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