Stress Testing as a Service: New Year Adventures on Twitter
summary
Describes Twitter SRE's tools and strategies for structural failure testing, focusing on Stress Testing of APIs and a microservice "unit-test" methodology called Redline Testing. Covers how these tooling and approaches help detect and fix scalability problems early across Twitter's internal cloud platform.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Twitter introduction
- 3:54Project origin
- 11:41Extreme load tests
- 20:02Realistic test environments
- 27:53Distributed execution system
- 33:37Degradation strategies
- 40:57Traffic control and security
- 45:40Human errors and spikes
- 47:15Conclusion
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