It's that time again. I hope to come up with some thought provoking open questions that will get new ideas out there, or at least provide some intellectual relief from the more mundane project concerns(read: probably more important). Anyways, on with the show.
We all know having a wildly successful website would be awesome. What could be better, you toss your code out into the ether and find that the clamoring hordes love it, cherish it, and all want to be one with it 24x7. Everything is awesome, until your server catches fire and melts into a puddle on the floor. Not quite so awesome, now you have angry hordes and a big mess. Obviously there are ways to prevent this, caching, replication, etc, but how would you know when to implement them? Wouldn't it be nice to have a testing system that can tell you when you max out on database/request/processing load, which will hit the wall first, etc. We run unit tests to make sure our code works as designed, what about stress tests to figure out where the breaking points are? What do you do to check the performance of your code? How do you isolate problems that would only occur during high utilization. Should turbogears include something to help you break down where your code is wasting time instead of fulfilling requests? How would it work? I could see modifying unit tests to add some kind of performance metric. It would be fairly easy to hijack the existing test functions and have them report how long everything took. That would be a decent start. Where should it stop though? How do you load test a server before you deploy it? Should we have some kind of system to open up the code for automated testing? If so, how would it be done? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
