Let's just say that if you've tried to test an ESB or an EAI system for scalability you know how painful it can be, and this test is no exception. Between configuring the Spirent Avalanche to play nice with each of the web services endpoints that kick off the process and making certain that all the other pieces of the test are running correctly...well, it's been a long day. I brought both products to their proverbial knees within a matter of minutes, then backed off and inched up the scale until I broke them again, looking for each product's breaking point and the implications of concurrent processes on latency and CPU utilization.
Yes, as a matter of fact, I am a speed demon and the last time I obeyed the speed limit while driving was ... well ... when I tested for my license. Don't ask when that was, I'm not saying.
Just getting this far has been worth it, though, as there's some interesting performance trends in the data that will be cool to pull together for you to peruse in the near future.
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