Webcast with Target: API Performance Testing for Black Friday

July 24, 2014

Webcast with Target: API Performance Testing for Black Friday

Today’s speakers

Aaron StreyTarget@Strey203

Greg BrailApigee@gbrail

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Target processes tens of millions of API requests per

day

For a brief period around Black Friday we see a ~10-

fold increase in traffic

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Generating load

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Treat your test scripts like you treat your code

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Predicting traffic

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“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” -Albert Einstein

Predicting net new API consumer usage is really hard

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Log and monitor all the things

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Example metrics

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Example metrics

Test APIs for anti-fragility

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Test APIs continuously

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Keep ownership of performance testing as close to the development team as

possible

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Types of tests

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Stress: determines the load you can handle and still meet your SLA

Load: 80% of stress

Soak: 80% of load for an extended period

Spike: 80% of load to 120% of load back and forth

The hard stuff

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Key takeaway

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Performance testing is a first-

class citizen

Questions?

Aaron StreyTarget@strey203

Greg BrailApigee@gbrail

Thank you

11 February 2014