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Happy New Year and welcome to the first 'Peak Insights' of 2018!

While we all say goodbye to 2017, we thought we'd take a moment to reflect on key events in our industry, as well as the success of our collective efforts using Apica Load Test from the past year.

This issue we're also introducing "Load Test Spotlight" — a new section where, each month, we'll highlight one specific feature with aim to share tips and best practices that ensure you're getting the most out of the tool. 

We hope you enjoy, and as always, please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions.

 

Sincerely,

The Apica Team
 
 

2017: Year In Review 
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Google

What happened?

A widespread outage impacted 837M Google app users across the globe. Google declined to comment on what caused the issue.

The result? ~2 hours of downtime. 

Amazon

What happened?

While working on an internal billing systems issue, Amazon's S3 team unintentionally took down a large set of servers affecting ~150,000 websites.

The result? 4 hours of downtime. 

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British Airways

What happened?

A disconnected power supply led to an IT systems failure, resulting in mass flight cancellations and grounding of over 75,000 passengers.

The cost? £100m+ in compensation.
 
 

Apica Load Test—By the Numbers
   
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 For more 2017 statistics, check out our latest blog.
 
 

Improvements

 

Infrastructure Performance

We are carefully monitoring our infrastructure and during the last two months we have seen a few rare cases with slow response times. In these cases the response time for getting test results from large and long running test has been longer than expected. After analyzing the root cause we have now updated our infrastructure performance and by that doubled the capacity. With a doubled capacity we are well prepared for the increase of new customers and the trend of more customers moving towards CI/CD.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

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Non-Functional Requirements

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In Apica Load Test, Non-Functional Requirements are response time thresholds you can configure for pages and transactions in your scenarios. These requirements can be displayed in charts, page or transaction result details and be compared against the test results.

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