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May 11, 2017 · Operations

Designing Performance Test Scenarios: Models, Metrics, and Strategies

This article explains how to design performance testing scenarios, covering test models, metrics, script preparation, concurrency calculations, pressure strategies, run times, delay settings, user termination, monitoring methods, and various typical scenario types such as baseline, load, mixed, capacity, large‑concurrency, stability and scalability tests.

Load TestingMonitoringPerformance Testing

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Designing Performance Test Scenarios: Models, Metrics, and Strategies

360 Quality & Efficiency

Apr 17, 2017 · Operations

St-load: Streaming Load Testing Tool – Installation, Configuration, and Usage Guide

This guide introduces St-load, a Linux‑based streaming load testing tool, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing, compiling, and using its RTMP, HTTP, and HLS testing features, including command‑line examples and parameter explanations for both push and pull scenarios.

LinuxLoad TestingStreaming

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St-load: Streaming Load Testing Tool – Installation, Configuration, and Usage Guide

System Architect Go

Mar 31, 2017 · Operations

Using Artillery and ab for Server Load Testing

This article demonstrates how to install and run load‑testing tools Artillery and Apache ab, explains their command‑line options, interprets the performance metrics they produce, and provides tips for handling system limits during high‑concurrency tests.

Load Testingabartillery

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Using Artillery and ab for Server Load Testing

Efficient Ops

Jan 12, 2017 · Operations

How JD’s ForceBot Revolutionizes Full‑Chain Load Testing for Massive Shopping Events

ForceBot is JD.com’s comprehensive full‑chain load‑testing platform that simulates user behavior across the entire purchase flow, isolates test traffic, leverages Docker‑based agents, GRPC services, and real‑time data analytics to identify bottlenecks, optimize resource planning, and support both routine and peak‑traffic scenarios.

AutomationLoad Testingperformance engineering

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How JD’s ForceBot Revolutionizes Full‑Chain Load Testing for Massive Shopping Events

Alibaba Cloud Developer

Dec 23, 2016 · Operations

How Alibaba Scaled Double 11: The Evolution of Capacity Planning and Real‑Time Stress Testing

This article recounts Alibaba's 7‑year journey of capacity planning for the massive Double 11 shopping festival, detailing early guesswork, the introduction of load‑testing, online and scenario‑based testing, traffic isolation, and full automation that enabled precise resource allocation across hundreds of services.

Load Testingcapacity planningperformance optimization

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How Alibaba Scaled Double 11: The Evolution of Capacity Planning and Real‑Time Stress Testing

WeChat Backend Team

Dec 4, 2016 · Backend Development

How We Scaled a New Year Gala Shake‑to‑Win System to 10 Million Requests per Second

This article revisits the technical design and evolution of the 2015 Chinese New Year Gala "shake" activity, detailing how the backend architecture was progressively refined—from a simple prototype to a production‑grade system capable of handling tens of millions of concurrent requests—through resource pre‑download, access‑layer integration, load‑balancing, and robust fail‑over mechanisms.

Load Testingdistributed-systemshigh-concurrency

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How We Scaled a New Year Gala Shake‑to‑Win System to 10 Million Requests per Second

Java High-Performance Architecture

Nov 17, 2016 · Operations

Mastering wrk: A Practical Guide to HTTP Load Testing with Lua Scripts

This guide introduces the wrk HTTP load‑testing tool, explains its multithreaded and Lua‑scriptable architecture, walks through installation and command‑line usage, interprets key performance metrics, and demonstrates how to extend functionality with custom Lua scripts for advanced testing scenarios.

HTTPLoad Testingwrk

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Mastering wrk: A Practical Guide to HTTP Load Testing with Lua Scripts

360 Quality & Efficiency

Oct 28, 2016 · Operations

Performance Testing of 360 Endpoint Security Management System with LoadRunner

This report details the performance testing of the 360 Endpoint Security Management System, covering product overview, architecture, tool selection (favoring LoadRunner), test scenarios, script implementation, execution results, resource utilization, and analysis, concluding with insights on testing methodology and optimization.

Endpoint SecurityJMeterLoad Testing

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Performance Testing of 360 Endpoint Security Management System with LoadRunner

ITPUB

Oct 22, 2016 · Backend Development

Designing Scalable High‑Concurrency Architecture: Practical Strategies and Patterns

This guide explains how to design and test high‑concurrency systems by choosing appropriate server architectures, load‑balancing, database clustering, caching layers, message queues, first‑level caches, and static data strategies to ensure smooth operation under heavy user traffic.

Backend ArchitectureLoad TestingMessage Queue

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Designing Scalable High‑Concurrency Architecture: Practical Strategies and Patterns

360 Quality & Efficiency

Oct 14, 2016 · Backend Development

Comparative Performance Evaluation of JMeter, Locust, asyncio (Python) and Go for Server Load Testing

This article compares JMeter, LoadRunner, Locust, asyncio (Python) and Go-based load testing tools by measuring CPU, memory, Nginx response and TPS under varying concurrency levels, concluding that Go delivers the highest throughput while Python coroutines offer significant improvements over older Python versions.

JMeterLoad TestingLocust

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Comparative Performance Evaluation of JMeter, Locust, asyncio (Python) and Go for Server Load Testing

Meituan Technology Team

Oct 1, 2016 · Operations

How Meituan Scaled Its Mobile Deal System for Mega‑Promotions: Traffic Modeling & Capacity Planning

This article details Meituan's technical approach to handling massive traffic spikes during large‑scale promotions, covering background of the O2O deal platform, traffic‑model construction, capacity‑budget calculations, micro‑service architecture evolution, pressure‑test strategies, and the PTP performance‑testing environment used to validate system limits.

Load TestingMicroservicesMobile Testing

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How Meituan Scaled Its Mobile Deal System for Mega‑Promotions: Traffic Modeling & Capacity Planning

360 Zhihui Cloud Developer

Sep 13, 2016 · Operations

Master ApacheBench: Quick Load Testing for Your Web Server in One Command

This guide explains what load testing is, how to use ApacheBench (ab) with simple commands, interprets the key performance metrics it returns, and highlights important precautions for effective and safe web server stress testing.

Load TestingWeb Serverab command

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Master ApacheBench: Quick Load Testing for Your Web Server in One Command

Java High-Performance Architecture

Sep 9, 2016 · Backend Development

How to Capture and Replay Real HTTP Traffic with GoReplay for Accurate Testing

This guide explains how to use GoReplay to capture live HTTP requests from a production environment, filter and store them, and replay them in a test environment with adjustable speed, enabling realistic load testing and debugging without affecting real users.

Backend testingGoReplayHTTP replay

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How to Capture and Replay Real HTTP Traffic with GoReplay for Accurate Testing

Java High-Performance Architecture

Aug 27, 2016 · Operations

How to Quickly Benchmark Your API with Benchttp: A Lightweight Go Tool

Benchttp is a minimal‑weight Go‑based load‑testing utility that lets you measure QPS, duration, and concurrency with simple command‑line flags, and the article explains its usage, common parameters, and step‑by‑step installation on Linux.

GoLoad TestingQPS

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How to Quickly Benchmark Your API with Benchttp: A Lightweight Go Tool

Art of Distributed System Architecture Design

Aug 19, 2016 · Operations

Five Popular Web Performance Testing Tools

With increasing emphasis on user experience, this article introduces five widely used web performance testing tools—HP LoadRunner, Apache JMeter, Load UI, Httperf, and Siege—detailing their capabilities for load simulation, functional testing, and performance analysis to help developers and testers optimize application reliability and speed.

Apache JMeterHP LoadRunnerLoad Testing

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Five Popular Web Performance Testing Tools

dbaplus Community

Aug 3, 2016 · Operations

How to Thoroughly Benchmark Backend Services: Key Metrics and Practical Steps

This article explains which external and internal performance metrics matter for backend services, how to interpret them, common bottlenecks, and provides a step‑by‑step example using JMeter to measure throughput, latency, CPU, memory, load, network and disk I/O.

CPUJMeterLoad Testing

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How to Thoroughly Benchmark Backend Services: Key Metrics and Practical Steps

360 Quality & Efficiency

Jul 12, 2016 · Backend Development

Short-Connection Server Pressure Testing Methodology and Transaction Rate Evaluation

This article explains how to assess the maximum concurrent user capacity of short‑connection server implementations by using the HTTP Transaction Rate metric, contrasting it with long‑connection testing, and provides practical calculation examples and terminology definitions.

Load Testingbackendshort connection

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Short-Connection Server Pressure Testing Methodology and Transaction Rate Evaluation

MaGe Linux Operations

Jun 3, 2016 · Operations

How to Use tcpcopy for Real‑Time Traffic Replication and Load Testing

This guide explains how tcpcopy copies live traffic to test machines, details its installation, demonstrates performance testing commands, and presents results and monitoring graphs to show the impact of replicated traffic on backend and test servers.

InterceptLoad Testingnetwork monitoring

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How to Use tcpcopy for Real‑Time Traffic Replication and Load Testing

360 Quality & Efficiency

Apr 8, 2016 · Operations

Comparative Analysis of Six Server Load‑Testing Tools: LoadRunner, JMeter, Spirent Avalanche, Siege, Tsung, and Locust

This article presents a detailed comparison of six server‑side load‑testing tools—LoadRunner, JMeter, Spirent Avalanche, Siege, Tsung, and Locust—through multiple real‑world scenarios, evaluating their protocol support, scripting flexibility, performance, cost, and suitability for different testing requirements.

Load Testingstress testingtool comparison

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Comparative Analysis of Six Server Load‑Testing Tools: LoadRunner, JMeter, Spirent Avalanche, Siege, Tsung, and Locust

21CTO

Mar 17, 2016 · Backend Development

Turn Java Enterprise Performance Tuning into a Scientific Process

This article explains a systematic, waiting‑point‑based approach to enterprise Java performance tuning, covering load‑test design, analysis of existing versus new applications, hierarchical and technical waiting points, pool and cache sizing, and a back‑tuning workflow to achieve measurable improvements.

Load TestingOperationsbackend optimization

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Turn Java Enterprise Performance Tuning into a Scientific Process

Baidu Intelligent Testing

Mar 10, 2016 · Operations

Performance Testing Methodology and Case Study for a High‑Traffic Wallet System

This article outlines a complete performance‑testing workflow—including requirement analysis, overall and detailed design, environment selection, execution, result collection, and bottleneck analysis—using a wallet "red‑packet" project that must handle tens of thousands of requests per second.

Load TestingOperationsPerformance Testing

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Performance Testing Methodology and Case Study for a High‑Traffic Wallet System

21CTO

Jan 6, 2016 · Backend Development

Essential Best Practices for Accurate HTTP Load Testing

This article outlines ten practical guidelines—ranging from test environment consistency and dedicated hardware to network capacity checks, OS tuning, realistic workloads, proper test duration, and comprehensive result reporting—to ensure reliable and reproducible HTTP server performance benchmarks.

Load TestingOperationsbackend

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Essential Best Practices for Accurate HTTP Load Testing

ITPUB

Dec 4, 2015 · Backend Development

How to Measure and Optimize System Load Capacity for High‑Concurrency Backends

This guide explains key metrics, influencing factors, and practical tuning steps—including bandwidth, hardware, OS limits, TCP parameters, and server configurations—to assess and improve a backend system's maximum request handling capacity under high concurrency.

Linux TuningLoad TestingMySQL

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How to Measure and Optimize System Load Capacity for High‑Concurrency Backends

21CTO

Nov 12, 2015 · Operations

Scaling Suning’s E‑Commerce for Double‑11: System Splitting and Resilience

Suning’s technical team shares how they prepared for Double‑11 by splitting monolithic services into focused modules, building a robust foundational platform with cloud, middleware, and monitoring tools, refining R&D processes, and implementing comprehensive load‑testing, optimization, and emergency response plans to ensure system stability under massive traffic.

Load TestingMonitoringe-commerce architecture

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Scaling Suning’s E‑Commerce for Double‑11: System Splitting and Resilience

MaGe Linux Operations

Aug 6, 2015 · Operations

Mastering Software Performance Testing: Key Concepts & Calculation Formulas

This article explains essential software performance testing concepts—including QPS/TPS, concurrency, response time, throughput calculations, think time, and how to estimate daily traffic using real‑world examples from e‑commerce platforms—providing formulas and practical guidance for engineers, administrators, and developers to assess and optimize system capacity.

Load TestingPerformance TestingQPS

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Mastering Software Performance Testing: Key Concepts & Calculation Formulas

Architect

Jun 17, 2015 · Operations

Building a High‑Performance Web Cluster: Load‑Generating Tools and Tsung Configuration Guide

This article introduces load‑generating tools, compares their performance, and provides a step‑by‑step Tsung installation and XML configuration to help engineers build a web cluster capable of handling millions of requests per second.

BenchmarkingJMeterLoad Testing

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Building a High‑Performance Web Cluster: Load‑Generating Tools and Tsung Configuration Guide

MaGe Linux Operations

Jun 17, 2015 · Backend Development

Generating Millions of HTTP Requests per Second: Tsung, JMeter, and More

This article explains how to achieve ultra‑high HTTP request rates by using load‑generating tools such as Apache Bench, httperf, JMeter and Tsung, discusses Linux socket limits, provides step‑by‑step installation and configuration examples for Tsung on CentOS, and shows how to run tests and interpret the results for building a high‑performance web cluster.

HTTPJMeterLinux

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Generating Millions of HTTP Requests per Second: Tsung, JMeter, and More

MaGe Linux Operations

Jun 15, 2015 · Backend Development

How to Tune Nginx for Over 900k Requests per Second on Linux

This guide walks you through installing and configuring Nginx for extreme request rates, optimizing kernel TCP settings, and using Tsung to benchmark a server that can sustain more than 900,000 requests per second, with detailed command examples and configuration snippets.

Load TestingNginxTCP Tuning

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How to Tune Nginx for Over 900k Requests per Second on Linux

Nightwalker Tech

Jan 11, 2015 · Backend Development

Tools and Practices for Website and Backend Service Load Testing and Performance Optimization

This article compiles a comprehensive discussion of load‑testing tools, profiling techniques, and optimization strategies for web and backend services, offering practical advice on selecting utilities, analyzing performance bottlenecks, and automating testing workflows.

Load TestingMonitoringbackend

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Tools and Practices for Website and Backend Service Load Testing and Performance Optimization

MaGe Linux Operations

Jul 5, 2014 · Operations

Discover 10 Free Tools to Load‑Test Your Web Applications

Learn about ten free, open‑source tools—including Grinder, JMeter, and Siege—that let you simulate concurrent users, measure performance, and identify bottlenecks in web applications, helping you assess server capacity and optimize site responsiveness under load.

Load TestingOpen-source toolsOperations

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Discover 10 Free Tools to Load‑Test Your Web Applications

MaGe Linux Operations

Jul 5, 2014 · Operations

How Tcpcopy Replicates Live Traffic for Realistic Load Testing

Tcpcopy is a distributed online pressure testing tool that copies live traffic to test machines, enabling realistic simulation of production environments without deploying new code, and the article explains its principles, code details, deployment steps, advanced usage, and real‑world application at Yitao.

Load Testingnetworktcpcopy

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How Tcpcopy Replicates Live Traffic for Realistic Load Testing