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The first rule of the CI/CD club

  • August 20, 2025
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The first rule of the CI/CD club
PolinaKr
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Hi ShiftSyncers!

This Q&A piece from our recent webinar can be useful for you.

Today’s question is:

If your production traffic peaks for only 30 minutes a day, is it still necessary to test at the peak load for hours? Why, or why not?

 

Watch the full webinar here

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David.Giacomini
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Great response. Easy answer would have been to test continuously which is indeed a waste of resource. It’s like testing for Black Friday e-commerce loads every day which is unnecessary. But load testing at scale is indeed critical. It’s where we often see outages and things break.