{"id":2873,"date":"2011-11-15T11:09:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T15:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2011-11-22T10:20:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:20:16","slug":"systems-never-pass-the-first-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2011\/11\/systems-never-pass-the-first-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems never pass the first test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of our entire list of services customers, only a handful have satisfied  their performance goals on the first test. Of those, all but one had  been through a performance testing campaign with us in the previous  year. If this is the first time for your project or your organization to  undertake performance testing, you are virtually guaranteed to fail the  first test.<\/p>\n<p>There is a large list of things that can go wrong with modern web systems &#8211; firewalls, load balancers, databases, web servers and, of course, the code. One setting buried deep in an Apache config file can make or break your scalability. If you plan for multiple load testing iterations starting early in the development process, those kinks can all be worked out with time to spare. But if you plan the first test for the day before go-live, you are  headed for disaster!<\/p>\n<p>Chris Merrill, Chief Engineer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of our entire list of services customers, only a handful have satisfied  their performance goals on the first test. Of those, all but one had  been through a performance testing campaign with us in the previous  year. If this is the first time for your project or your organization to  undertake performance testing, you are virtually guaranteed to fail the  first test.<br \/>\nThere is a large list of things that can go wrong with modern web systems &#8211; firewalls, load balancers, databases, web servers and, of course, the code. One setting buried deep in an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2011\/11\/systems-never-pass-the-first-test\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-load-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}