RedLine13 versus Do-it-Yourself Load Testing

JMeter is one of the most popular load testing frameworks. However, to use JMeter at scale requires supporting infrastructure. In this post, we will be comparing and contrasting managed versus do-it-yourself (DIY) JMeter load testing. With the rise of cloud-based architectures, it has become increasingly the standard to test using cloud-based resources. This means writing scripts to provision servers, coordinate load generators, and handle data collection.  Load testers using JMeter have two general options. They canRead More →

e-learning and load testing

Common App, used by undergraduate college applicants to apply to more than 900 member colleges and universities worldwide, uses RedLine13 to verify their targets for system performance during peak activity. They are one of many e-learning companies who found what they need with RedLine13. This post is about a few of the e-learning companies and load testing: Common App, Renaissance Learning, ACT and Riverside Insights. Renaissance Learning Renaissance Learning, Inc. is a software as a serviceRead More →

e-learning and load testing

E-learning company Riverside Insights needed to know how many students their site could handle. They are one of many e-learning companies who found what they need with RedLine13. This post is about e-learning companies and load testing: Renaissance Learning, ACT, Riverside Insights and Common App. Renaissance Learning Renaissance Learning, Inc. is a software as a service and learning analytics company that makes cloud-based, pre-K–12 educational software and adaptive assessments. They moved to AWS to makes sureRead More →

Moved to RedLine13

Heath Meyer of ACT spoke at LoadTestWorld about why ACT moved to RedLine13 and how they did it. Read below for the highlights of Heath’s talk or watch his 28 minute video on the LoadTestWorld YouTube channel. Periodic Exploration Heath explained how ACT regularly does periodic explorations of new technology and that is how they learned about RedLine13. ACT evaluated the new technology based on: cost ease of use support ability to leverage existing scripts SavingsRead More →

Deciding how many load agents you need

You have written your test plan and are ready to run your cloud-based load test with RedLine13, leveraging AWS resources to easily scale your load profile.  However, before you can launch your test, you’ll need to decide on how many EC2 load testing servers you will need.  In this brief guide, we will discuss the concepts and simple calculations to help you determine that number.Read More →

apache-jmeter-redline13-load-testing

Apache JMeter is one of the most popular tools for load testing.  With RedLine13, scaling out your JMeter test plan on the cloud in is easy.  In this video and subsequent guide, we will walk you through running you first JMeter load test on RedLine13. Getting Started When running a JMeter test on RedLine13, we begin by logging into our account, hitting “Start Test“, and then navigating to the “JMeter” tab. Obviously we will need aRead More →

RedLine13 supports EC2 c5n

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of EC2 C5n instances that can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth. Redline13 supports EC2 C5n instances for load tests which require high network usage load tests.  Now when you’re selecting your AWS server you can choose a C5n instance. Even though AWS provides this extremely high network bandwidth, the cost is still low. RedLine13 gives you the power and control to choose a C5n instance. What otherRead More →

Moving from BlazeMeter was one part of a company’s plans to save money and improve security. Renaissance fully bought into shift left. They have 400 developers and one performance engineer with the developers doing the load testing. Read more about shift left testing. This was part of their plan to save money by moving from traditional data centers to AWS. They ran a comprehensive proof of concept with RedLine13 and then chose RedLine13. RedLine13 made itRead More →

Million Concurrent User Load Testing

Load testing with a high concurrent user count can be challenging in many ways. This post will tell you about how one team did it with one million user testing with JMeter and the challenges they faced. Requirements Thinklogic, a Los Angeles based consulting firm specializing in web development and custom business software solutions, was tasked with quickly building and load testing a highly scalable web-based application that would handle one million concurrent users. The highRead More →

ITRex Chose RedLine13

ITRex is a software development and consulting company that “creates and transforms products and enterprises to drive growth.” They wrote a blog post: Why ITRex chose RedLine13 as the primary load testing tool. Their post walks through the advantages and then gives some examples of ITRex customers. One customer was an e-commerce platform owner, struggling with their response time and downtimes, so their bounce rates went up and sales decreased. They used RedLine13 to run JMeterRead More →