Capacity planning with Capybara and RabbitMQ
summary
Shows how to use Capybara (the Rails acceptance testing tool) together with RabbitMQ to create realistic load tests for web apps, identifying bottlenecks and informing capacity and deployment choices. Explains why traditional tools like apache bench give misleading results and demonstrates this alternative approach using Capybara plus message-queue-driven orchestration with RabbitMQ.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:52What is Capacity?
- 3:09Methodology
- 6:13Capybara Setup
- 10:39Multi machine Architecture
- 12:41Recap
- 13:14References
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