Chapter 14. Case Study: During the Test

Update

During the last case study, the TriMont team sent you some early data on their new web site, and we worked through a preliminary analysis of this data. Now the TriMont team is ready to begin their performance testing in earnest.

Test Environment

Many things, of course, happened to move the test forward to this point. Let's review some of the activity at TriMont since the initial case study.

Hardware Configuration

The TriMont team reviewed your initial network analysis and agreed to the assumptions you made. The web site manager became somewhat alarmed at the traffic volumes expected at peak loading (the potential for 1,400 requests/second in the peak hour). The TriMont team decided to use a caching proxy ...

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