Load testing web services at Mozilla with Molotov

FOSDEM 2018

This talk presents the different challenges Mozilla faces when deploying web services for millions of users, and how load testing is used to prevent the most common pitfalls, through the usage of Molotov.

Molotov (http://molotov.readthedocs.io/) is a custom load testing tool the Mozilla QA team created and uses to stress applications that get deployed for Firefox.

This talk will present the following:

the different types of applications Mozilla deploys in the cloud
the most common bottlenecks and how to detect and correct them
the existing load testing tools
Molotov features and examples
Continuous Load Testing principles

By the end of the talk, attendees should have a good understanding of how an application should be stressed.

Speakers: Tarek Ziade