Category: Allgemein

More docker = more power? – Part 4: Problems arise
Now, it’s finally time to start our first load test. We will be using ApacheBench. To install it simply enter apt-get install apache2-utils. To load test your website enter ab -n 200 -c 50 <URL_to_your_page> This command runs 200 requests, with a maximum of 50 at the same time. The results are then displayed in…

More docker = more power? – Part 3: Setting up the loadbalancer
To benefit from using a loadbalancer we need several machines to distribute the traffic on, evidently. Thanks to Docker we simply run docker run -d -p 81:80 testwebsite:1 to get a second machine. This time the container port of the webserver is mapped to port 81. If you now visit <IP OF YOUR VM>:81 you…
Systems Engineering and Management WS 2015/2016
The course Systems Engineering and Management is designed to bridge the gap between theoretical studies in Ultra Large Scale Systems and professional state of the art development. Students should find a platform to explore modern tooling and environments for building, integrating, testing and scaling their applications. It turned out as a good idea to adapt and tailor the content to…
