Measuring Web scalability is a critical component of website scaling. The way you do this in a testing environment is, of course, called “load testing.” But what you might not know about load testing is how it relates to Little’s Law: “The average number of things in the system is the product of the average rate at which things leave the system and the average time each one spends in the system. (And if there is a gross flow balance of things entering and leaving, the exit rate is also the entry rate.)”
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Website Scaling, Part 2: The Metrics of Measuring
Posted by: Martin Heller January 18, 2012 05:00 AMMeasuring Web scalability is a critical component of website scaling. The way you do this in a testing environment is, of course, called “load testing.” But what you might not know about load testing is how it relates to Little’s Law: “The average number of things in the system is the product of the average rate at which things leave the system and the average time each one spends in the system. (And if there is a gross flow balance of things entering and leaving, the exit rate is also the entry rate.)”