Case Study: Gilt achieves scalable web performance and faster load testing with SOASTA CloudTest

Gilt Groupe Brings Web Performance into Fashion with SOASTA

Gilt, the online flash-sale retailer, faced massive daily traffic spikes and rapid growth that put pressure on its e-commerce site and user experience. To keep performance high, Gilt turned to SOASTA and its CloudTest load testing solution to validate the site under heavy demand.

SOASTA helped Gilt replicate real-world load, test gradual and sudden traffic spikes, and view results in real time through the CloudTest Analytics Dashboard. This let Gilt quickly spot and fix bottlenecks, scale testing to the cloud without extra infrastructure, and manage spikes of more than 10,000 requests per second within 5–15 minutes.

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Kevin Haggard

VP of Software Reliability Engineering