Load testing may seem like a tiresome, difficult, and expensive task, however that is actually far from the truth. Here at RedLine13 we’re all about “almost” free load testing, and even when you do have to pay for testing, the cost is exponentially less compared to other services out there. Additionally, load testing isn’t necessarily as complicated or involved as you might think, as our users and others have been saying. Martin Larsen, the Senior DeveloperRead More →

Forward Being able to recognize and understand major industry shifts and trends is something we value highly here at RedLine13. It allows us to continue to not only improve upon ourselves, but to also keep our readers and users informed and up-to-date with what’s going on in the world of load/performance testing. This is why we have introduced a new blog “mini-series”, if you will, which will focus entirely on important industry trends. For the first entryRead More →

We are very excited to launch JMeter + Selenium WebDriver Plugin support (in Beta) on AWS. This little update makes it seamless to launch web driver tests at scale.  Create real user tests and generate images of the results as you would a normal Selenium tests. Tested  on our Linux (Ubuntu) images Chrome Firefox Key things to know  We do not provide support for Windows/IE support If folks find this feature useful we will continue toRead More →

Been following #AWS Reinvent and noticed the mention of AWS MarketPlace + HP Load Runner.  Turns out HP charges you more to run on your AWS, here is some basic analysis.   Public Pricing Community Edition – 50 virtual users Free. HP 150 – 150 Virtual Users 50$ per EC2 instance per hour + AWS instance cost HP 300 – 300 Virtual Users 125$ per EC2 instance per hour + AWS instance cost HP Load RunnerRead More →

BlazeMeter has become a real leader in making a professional version of Apache JMeter. We have heard through the grapevine that Blazemeter is trying to raise another $10M in addition to the original Series A of $6.5M and $1.2M of Seed funding. We wish them well because commercial backing can really help advance open source projects with additional development, and especially better PR, Marketing and Selling efforts. We have a track record of being a part ofRead More →

Continuous Integration (CI) is a development practice that requires a team to integrate code into a shared repository several times a day. Each check-in is then verified by an automated build, allowing teams to detect problems early.  With services such as RedLine13 it is now cost-effective and easy to integrate load testing into this lifecycle.Read More →

We provide a free service that helps you setup and deploy load testing instances in your Amazon account. You have to pay for the load testing part of this on the spot instances – hence the (Almost). As an example: if you want to run a load test with 200 m1.small Load Agent Servers hitting your application or site, we can manage them as spot instances and it will cost you about $2.00 for an hour.Read More →

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It is fun to watch the large scale tests that people are using RedLine for. Here is an example of a test with 10 m3.2xlarge servers each simulating 2000 users each hitting the applications 50 times from the AWS Ireland data center. So 1,000,000 hits on their application in a couple of minutes. Here is the graph of a successful test:   As you can see the load was about 10,000 hits per second and theRead More →

FEATURED   RedLine Named Amazon AWS Technology Partner RedLine recently completed the requirements to qualify as an AWS Technology Partner. Amazon provides a rich cloud infrastructure that enables us to scale both of our offerings (Load Testing and Zip Code API). We also use their IAM capabilities to automatically deploy powerful and inexpensive Spot Instances in a customer’s AWS account securely. Read more… WHAT’S NEW   Red Hat OpenShift Load Testing RedLine recently worked with Red HatRead More →