Hi Mifos and Fineract communities, In follow up to my previous comments on Joseph's thread I wanted to initiate a collaborative community-wide effort to help address the ongoing and growing need for helping Mifos/Fineract scale and sustain high load environments.
This really represent an area where we can demonstrate that together as Open Source Community we are much stronger than each individual or partner trying to tackle this alone. This would be for both Fineract and Fineract CN. *Why the need for this Working Group?* The formation of a working group focused on this subject is needed as evident from various mail thread or support requests trying to optimize the system for high load/volume environments and a growing number of prospects eager to use the platform but needing more visibility into its performance and ability to meet high TPS requirements. Secondly, there are many partner-led implementations and deployments of Fineract/Mifos supporting millions of clients and it would be valuable to share that knowledge across the community. Lastly, it's been quite some time since we've had public performance testing done, the efforts led by eSolve in 2017 (see wiki page) and IBM/Conflux in 2015 <https://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/page/stg_ast_sys-mifos-x-on-ibm-powerlinux-servers>both pre-date the recent change from Hibernate to OpenJPA. Kumaranath with support from Avik of Fynarfin worked on performance related issues during 2018 GSOC - https://docs.google.com/document/d/18_awblHsI3uZmc7f80Q5HljAGwc2XhIpYOlOtW_-In0 *What/How* 1. Create a set of reproducible tools to enable automation of this on an ongoing basis. 1. Performance testing related data sets - i.e. DB dumps, scripts to generate test data 2. Postman scripts to run load tests 3. Perhaps we can create a repo on github for this? 2. Access to Resources 1. If you have hardware or cloud environments available to conduct these load/performance tests please share. 3. Culture & Transparency - Establish this as a priority area of the community to collectively address. 4. Documentation (likely on the Fineract Wiki) - I created this page to start: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/khD3Bw 1. Share and document existing results of performance testing to date. Share the details of environments you have set up to address high load needs. 2. Document the scenarios and TPS requirements that need to be tested 3. Document typical improvements to address performance (at a configuration, database, code, level, etc.) 5. Identify issues to fix 1. Log new issues, update existing issues, and tag appropriately. 6. Share code and fixes to address performance issues 1. Make these a priority and plan out in our release roadmapping. *Next Steps* - If interested in joining the group, respond to this thread. - Begin sharing your inputs on the wiki page. - Start fixing existing issues. - Help in creating and executing on our performance testing plan. Thanks, Ed
