The Client

Our Customer is a Internet marketing company exclusively for the travel industry providing online hospitality marketing and consulting service for worldwide hotels, resorts and travel clients.

The Requirements

Scalability: Platform must be able to support a very high number of concurrent users.
Efficiency: Customer expectation includes the highly efficient application with minimal page navigation response time.
Reliability: Platform must scale rapidly to meet the business goals of attracting a larger user base and supporting multiple formats
Fail Over: Application should be able to behave functionally correct under high load and should have the Fail Over control

The Solution

Performance testing on HTTP, HTTPS protocols
Performance Tests on UI, AJAX etc
Identify Performance bottlenecks and suggest measures to overcomes them
Performance tests based on number concurrent users
Monitoring the server parameters like CPU usage, threads count, connections etc.
Profiling the application through Dot Trace and SQL profiler

The Technology

Microsoft .NET
AJAX
SQL Server
IIS Server
Kapow Data Mining

Contribution

Response time for actions covered under test.
Server stats analysis and suggesting bottlenecks:
Bottleneck due to resource usage of Kapow which is running on the same web server.
Suggestion for the optimum threads count.
Capturing the time consuming Stored Procs.

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