[ale] End to end testing?

[leam hall]

Okay, I confess; I had to look up cgroups. At this point it looks like I
could expand the discussion a bit.

One of the recurring discussions I have internally is "depth" or "breadth".
Introverts might agree with the desire to bury my head in a server's
internals and only deal with people asking if I want fries. The "want to
get more done" part of me understands that working across domains is
actually going to get more big problems resolved than learning to read
kernel code.

I'm leaning towards the latter at the moment. A problem might be "the
website is slow". The solution might focus on "define 'fast enough'" and
then map out the various site components so the end result is understood.
At that point you can look at testing a database query on the host, over
the LAN, and through the load balancers, to the world. Another issue might
be looking at backups and restores to ensure the capacity is there for a
larger recovery.

Most servers I've seen don't hit more than 5-10% utilization. So I'm not
sure that's the first target to learn more about. Unless the introvert part
of me wins the argument for a while.   ;)

Leam


On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:44 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> If you want to learn about DB tuning and scaling .... sign up for SELF and
> attend in a few weeks. There is a track on that - I think. Don't quote me,
> but
> check the schedule yourself.
>
> There's also a full day of Chef training on Friday AND B-sides for the
> security
> folks.
>
> On 05/21/2015 10:10 AM, leam hall wrote:
> > Understood. I'm less about targeting Google specifically than thinking of
> > ways to better my ability to figure out problems that cross skills
> domains
> > like SQL, Networking, and OS. For example.
> >
> > Lemme go look up that class. My current project is the security stuff.
> > However, it'd be nice to start thinking about the next thing, since I
> think
> > rather slowly.  :)
> >
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