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Once we've made some estimates on the performance benchmarks that we need to hit, we can design a series of load tests to see how our application behaves as it strives to meet those benchmarks.
Warnings
- DO NOT perform tests on Pantheon Dev/Test servers; although Test is a rough approximation of Live (albeit with fewer resources), if you overload Test, Pantheon may shut down your Test and Dev instances.
- DO NOT perform tests on a live site during peak hours.
Installing Tools
Apache Benchmark
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