Load Testing with 1,000,000 Users by Sebastian Cohnen

Hey @all,

we like to invite you to our monthly meetup at the trivago tower in Düsseldorf. In March, Sebastian Cohnen (@tisba (https://twitter.com/tisba)) will talk about Load Testing with 1,000,000 Users.

About the talk
This is a battle story talk about how we helped to debug and load test the interactive German TV quiz show on ARD back in 2014. The show failed during the first 5 minutes on the first episode. The talk will outline some background info, architecture and what happened, why it failed and what we did in order to help fixing it in one week. In the end the broadcaster (ARD) demanded external load tests to verify that the optimized/fixed system could sustain 1M concurrently active players…

About the speaker
Sebastian Cohnen (@tisba (https://twitter.com/tisba)) is co-founder and CTO of StormForger in Cologne (https://stormforger.com/), a performance testing SaaS for agile and DevOps companies. He is working with scalable, high-performance systems for years and is now mainly (load) testing and assessing those kinds of systems for his customers. Helping others to build scalable systems, discussing software architecture and especially how to assess its quality in practice are his main areas of interest.

Language of the talk: German or English, the speaker will ask before he starts.

Agenda

• 18:30 - 19:15: Arrival, get your first drink, socialising

• 19:15 - ~19:45: Talk by Sebastian + Q&A

• ~19:45 - Open End: Socialising

This meetup is for free. W-Lan, beer and non alcoholic drinks are available (for free as well!) and we like to see you there :)