I have been struggling how best to convey the idea of how Mu Studio’s approach of dynamically re-creating new, real sessions is different than re-playing old sessions. It’s a tricky concept, but I think that René Magritte said it best when commenting on his painting of a pipe that is labeled “this is not a pipe”: Full Post »
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Mu Studio Scale Video Posted
Over at the Mu Training Site, we recently published our Introduction to Mu Studio Scale video.
In the video, we used an easy to understand Scenario and ramped it up to 100,000 concurrent users. Actually,though, I think we replicated a lot more than 100,000 users, and here is why.
The importance of controls
When doing troubleshooting, it is really handy to have an example of system working correctly, a known good. Then you can compare failed situation with the working situation and figure out what is different. Sometimes you can figure out the failure just based on theoretic principles, a theoretical “known good”, but actual data from a working case really speeds up analysis.
Getting pcaps for your test cases
With Mu Studio, you can go from pcap to test creation in minutes. But how do you get the packet capture to start with?
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From Premise to Packet
My name is Rob Cameron. I am the product line engineer manager at Juniper Networks for the data center SRX. As a product line engineer we are experts in our particular technologies. We use this to make the best possible products and empower the field with the tools they need to best help customers. I have been working in the industry for over twelve years and have have authored five books about networking and security. My latest book is Junos Security from O’Reilly. I am very happy to be a guest blogger on Mu Dynamics Research Labs blog. Full Post »
Release 5.7.0 – Multiple Scale Players and LTE smarts
Our first release of the year brings two very useful capabilities to users – Multiple Scale Players and LTE smarts.
More scale and smarter scale for a wider set of real applications seems to be the emerging trend in the market. It’s no longer just about protocol support or raw throughput numbers. Unpredictable demand of applications post-launch is becoming the main challenge and our customers are demanding ways to replicate this in the test lab.
‘Tis the season of giving – all year round
Another compact yet punchy monthly release (5.6.1) makes our Scale capability that much more valuable to our user base at no additional charge. There are plenty of examples of how we are bringing real value to our users but the most recent one is that we just upped the capability per scale player by 5x compared to the previous release. What that means is that all our current users automatically and at no extra charge get 5 times more concurrencies per Scale player license. Our belief is that users will love, respect and reward us if we keep them happy and add value to them on a regular basis. That attitude forms the basis of our product development efforts and in fact to all groups within the company.
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IPv6, USGv6, Cisco and a peek into the future..
Just saw an announcement from Cisco around IPv6 and their progress at getting their products certified and ready for IPv6 deployments. In it they go on to specifically address the USGv6 directive. This is an exciting and welcome development and shows that vendors are starting to take the move to IPv6 seriously. Full Post »
Why you should get a 66% refund on your firewall!
This was both funny and sad at the same time. Since the time I built the IDP back at OneSecure, I have seen a number of situations where a networking product (firewall, DPI, IPS, extrusion detection, yada, yada) mirrors the marketing literature in terms of capacity, sessions, flows, etc and yet are completely overwhelmed in the real-world. We recently got to play with a firewall that was supposedly capable of 400,000 flows.
Optimizing node.js/CouchDB apps with Studio Scale Test
As most of you probably know, the Slashdot Effect is caused by someone posting a link to Slashdot which triggers massive amounts of inbound requests that melts the web server. These days it could be Twitter, Reddit, HN, etc. To quote the Wikipedia:
Few definitive numbers exist regarding the precise magnitude of the Slashdot effect, but estimates put the peak of the mass influx of page requests at anywhere from several hundred to several thousand hits per minute.
This short video shows you how to create the Slashdot Effect using Studio Scale.
