Case Study: Large Cloud Software Company achieves successful AWS migration and scalable performance testing with PFLB

Synthetic Testing in AWS Challenges and Solutions

The customer, Wild Apricot, a top-rated cloud software provider for membership management, faced significant risks while attempting to migrate its large-scale system with 6 million users to AWS. To ensure a seamless transition that would cut costs and increase availability, they engaged the vendor PFLB to conduct performance and synthetic testing in the cloud environment, a process fraught with unforeseen complexities.

PFLB implemented a comprehensive testing solution, which included processing massive server logs to build a load profile, utilizing a cross-platform suite of synthetic testing tools, and configuring a detailed monitoring system with InfluxDB and Grafana. The vendor overcame major challenges such as AWS's Burst feature and memory leaks in JMeter, ultimately succeeding on the eighth test iteration. PFLB's work successfully identified the optimal AWS hardware configuration for the client, saving them considerable time, money, and resources while ensuring the system's performance and scalability.