Akara Sucharitakul of Sun Microsystems will speak to us about Faban, a different load generator.

Abstract:

There are many existing load generators - many of them also open source. Why do we need yet another one? Faban approaches the problem of load generation, benchmarking, and measurements from a very different angle. It provides solid workload/simulation modeling constructs as well as a solid component programming model to describe the logic. This clear separation of workload model and logic ensures the high quality of the resulting workload without the developer having to know the intrinsic details of simulation theory. It also makes it easy to construct simple workloads while maintaining the flexibility needed for even very complex ones.

Not only does Faban generate load. It also encourages full automation of the load generation process, from starting/restarting server processes, resetting the database, to collecting system and application stats and presenting them in a uniform and comprehensible way. This session will walk you through the basics of Faban, the simulation model, the component model, and how we can use it to manage your
workloads. We will also touch upon the use of Faban in cloud computing scenarios and hopefully will have time to answer most if not all of your questions.

About the speaker:

Akara is the primary architect for project Faban, he is also one of the original designers and a committer for project Olio, an Apache incubator project at this time. Olio models modern scalable web systems using multiple software platforms, such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Java, and provides a uniform workload to test all these different platforms.

Akara brings over 10 years of experience in performance engineering. He has been directly involved in ECperf, the predecessor of SPECjAppServer and several iterations of SPECjAppServer as well as the current version still under development. Akara is also directly or indirectly involved in several other SPEC benchmarks and has been involved in a large number of other workload development efforts covering testing for a wide range of systems and architectures.

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Map of Sun Microsystems Santa Clara Campus

Parking: any parking place legitimate by California law not marked Reserved.

Please allow Akara to make his presentation undisturbed per our trademark. He will let you know when he is ready to take questions.