[ Cloud Computing ] Re: Client side testing from a Cloud

I'd look at http://soasta.com. The load isn't as big an issue as
interpreting the results from the load test and the folks at Soasta
have experience solving this problem.

Ben

On 12/16/08, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> We would like to start using one of these commercial Cloud platforms to help
> load test against our trading system. We have written a sophisticated
> testing suite that mimics real traders submitting orders into our system and
> we would like to deploy this application jar file on a few hundred instances
> if possible.
>
> What is the best platform available today to do this?
>
> Our application is 100% java and runs headless as a daemon on a client
> machine that makes a few TCP connections to our trading platform and send in
> a variety random orders.
>
> I've been looking at the Amazon documentation about getting application
> deployed but still not 100% sure if EC2 is the way to go for something so
> simple. I don't really need to do much with their WebSerice API other than
> making a simple dashboard to start up X number of clients and terminate
> clients.
>
> My requirement is to be able to programmically start this application across
> 100 to 1000 nodes over time and run for X interval while we look at load and
> various other utilization on our infrastructure side as a whole.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> [ Rodrick R. Brown ]
> http://www.rodrickbrown.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrickbrown
>
> >
>

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