How a famous Non-Governmental Organization maintains a high-level application performance

Challenges

The NGO releases tickets for its events twice a year. With a global audience, including executives, industry leaders, and government officials, maintaining high application performance is crucial, especially during ticket sales. The organization has a microservice architecture, so many services must be tested to ensure their resilience.

The NGO wanted to check their application’s resilience and stability during ticket sales to avoid crashes at unexpected times. To replicate significant international traffic, they wanted to be able to deploy load injectors worldwide. They also needed a solution to separate and compare results between runs taken months apart to ensure that performance did not degrade with software updates.

Solution

The organization chose the Gatling Enterprise Cloud version to begin their distributed and realistic load testing in 2022 in integration with Jenkins. With Gatling Enterprise, the organization could simulate traffic from multiple locations and accurately replicate their real-life traffic.

The organization conducted soak testing to check the application's resilience and identify bottlenecks when there was a constant throughput and peak testing to ensure the application wouldn't crash when traffic surged during the sale's opening.
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"What I really like is the multi-injector feature and how easy it is. Just put how many injectors you want, and it will distribute uniformly or replicate the load in the different regions. That's really useful."

API Development Lead Engineering

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Results

By integrating Gatling Enterprise, the organization continues to uphold its high-performance standards, avoid crashes during peak traffic, and maintain impeccable standards during its events for its users.

Currently, the organization is doing realistic load testing with 15+ Software Engineers and 2 Performance Testers. The organization successfully manages 3.5M+ website visits on a monthly average. During events, the organization reaches peak traffic and receives 2,000+ visitors per second, purchasing tickets and registering for events.

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