BAC-L3-OPS-113
Load testing and capacity planning
Knowing your breaking point before users find it, and knowing what it costs to push it further.
- Level
- L3 — Infrastructure engineer
- Duration
- 3 h
- Maintainer
- DevOps / Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer
Learning objectives
- 01Build a load profile representative of real usage
- 02Identify an infrastructure's bottleneck
- 03Project the capacity needed at a given horizon
Guided lab
Load the RPC infrastructure to breaking point and identify the limiting component.
Independent lab
Project the capacity needed for ten thousand active developers and cost it.
Security angle
A load test is a consented denial of service: a written scope, perimeter and window are mandatory.
Assessment
Load report with the bottleneck identified and a costed projection.