Network Capacity
- I have had a great experience of taking non-prod environment down at shomi.com
- By running a lot of elastic search and index requests
- Some people still grimace when they see me
- It was not the bandwidth
- Number of sockets opened on the server, on the client, on the network appliance
- There was a bug in firmware that would crash network appliance under specific type of load
- There were subsequent tests where client reached tens of thousands of open tcp/ip sockets pending
- Server was alright, client running heavy batch job was not
