Case Study: Canal+ ensures seamless streaming with Gatling Enterprise Edition

How Canal+ ensured seamless streaming with Gatling Enterprise Edition

Canal+ Group, one of Europe's leading media companies, faced the significant challenge of ensuring uninterrupted streaming for its myCanal platform, which serves over 400 million active users. With a complex microservice architecture, the company was forced to conduct high-stakes load tests directly in its production environment, risking major service interruptions. To guarantee performance during peak events like football matches, Canal+ turned to Gatling for a robust solution, specifically the Gatling Enterprise Edition, to safely simulate millions of concurrent users.

By implementing Gatling Enterprise Edition, Canal+ built a DevOps-ready performance framework. This solution utilized test-as-code scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform to create a continuous, automated testing process integrated into their CI/CD pipeline. The results were substantial: Gatling helped Canal+ identify and resolve critical bottlenecks, significantly increase performance thresholds, and achieve zero downtime during a major broadcast that served millions of concurrent viewers. This transformed their approach, making performance testing a standardized and shared responsibility across engineering teams.

Canal+ Group