E-Lesson Learned: How Performance Testing Could Have Prevented EdTech Crashes
In the rapidly evolving landscape of online education, prominent EdTech platforms like Coursera, edX, and Khan Academy have become essential tools for learners worldwide. However, the past few years there have seen significant outages across these platforms, disrupting educational experiences and raising concerns about their reliability. These incidents have highlighted the critical importance of performance […]
Preparing EdTech Software for Mass Student Registration
Load testing helped an EdTech platform handle 1,000+ simultaneous student registrations without failures during peak enrollment events.
Synthetic Load Testing for PaaS Educational Project
In the fall, a company assigned us a task of conducting load testing. It turned out that the customer was implementing an educational project based on the platform as a service (PaaS) principle and was creating a platform that would ensure effective interactions between teachers and students in the educational process.
The customer was faced with an ambitious task of launching a pilot project in general education schools in six regions of the country during six months and then replicating the project to general education schools.