cloud-benchmark

cloud-benchmark

An npm package to easily benchmark cloud host providers.

Every day, more and more cloud hosts clutter the web.
This leaves the big question largely unanswered:
Which one is right for you?
Usually this answer falls heavily on which cloud host offers the best performance.
Testing takes time and precious development hours.
Cloud-benchmark is a simple to use npm package to help developers determine which cloud host is the fastest for their specific application. General benchmarks are helpful, but with cloud-benchmark, developers can quickly customize their very own benchmarks to test their node.js apps and all its quirks.

After all, nobody know your app better than you.

Follow the steps below to learn how to use cloud-benchmark.

1 Installation

Add cloud benchmark to your package.json file to maintain most uptodate version.

"cloud-benchmark" : "*"

2 Import package

var cb = require('cloud-benchmark');

3 Add clouds to test

After deploying your application on different cloud hosts, add the url of each host.

cb.insertCloud("http://ec2-54-186-73-1.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com");
cb.insertCloud("https://sleepy-shelf-49558.herokuapp.com/");

4 Add routes

Add the routes of your nodejs application that you'd like to test. For POST requests, add the parameters.

cb.addRoute("GET", "/");
cb.addRoute("POST", "/addTodo", todo);
cb.addRoute("POST", "/deleteTodo", todo);
cb.addRoute("GET", "/getTodos");

5 Specify interval of time to run tests

The test will run every x number of hours, and perform y tests. cb.interval(x,y)

cb.interval(6, 4);

So, in this example, the benchmark will run every 6 hours and will undergo 4 intervals.

6 Specify number of trials to run

cb.number_of_trials = 100;

7 Start benchmark

cb.startBenchmark();

8 Generate Report

Cloud-benchmark will automatically generate this for you once the benchmark is complete. Simply open report.js.