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Quick and Dirty Performance Testing With Apache Bench
Posted on February 5, 2009 | No CommentsIf you need a quick and dirty way to throw some load onto a load balancer/ADC or web server, Apache comes with a great tool called Apache Bench. Since it’s an HTTP client, it will of course work with any server, not just Apache-based servers.... -
Part-Time Regex’r? Regex Coach
Posted on April 21, 2008 | 2 CommentsI deal with regex enough to need to know a beginning to intermediate level of knowledge, but I don’t use it enough to be able to form regex statements without thinking. Or in load balancing terms, it’s not burned into my brain ASIC. Every time... -
We Can All Get Along
Posted on February 27, 2007 | No CommentsIn large to medium sized organizations, those responsible for load balancers typically are in the networking group. However, because of the rather unique function of load balancers, their operation is tied closely to the applications in ways that switches, routers, and even firewalls aren’t. To...