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Load Test Results: Finding the Throughput Knee

Lesson 8 of 815 minLab

This lesson is part of the course

In this lesson

You analyse a 10-step load test of the Corvo Tickets checkout, find where throughput stops growing, pick the highest load that still meets the p95 SLO and chart the knee.

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Lessons in this course

  1. Little's Law: Requests in Flight, Throughput & LatencyLab13 min Locked
  2. Utilisation & Queueing Delay: the M/M/1 Hockey StickLab14 min Locked
  3. Latency Percentiles: p50, p95, p99 & the HistogramLab15 min Locked
  4. Bandwidth & Data Transfer Time: Bits, Bytes & WindowsLab12 min Locked
  5. Storage Growth Forecast: Compound Growth & Months Until FullLab14 min Locked
  6. Servers for the Peak: Headroom, ROUNDUP & Cost per 1,000 RequestsLab15 min Locked
  7. Availability of Serial & Parallel ComponentsLab14 min Locked
  8. Load Test Results: Finding the Throughput KneeLab15 min Locked