Category: AZURE

This blog shows how to ensure performance of your streaming server or OTT platform with a load test using Blazemeter and UbikLoadPack Video Streaming plugin for JMeter

Live graphs with Grafana and InfluxDB

Ensuring the performance of your video streaming infrastructure If you deliver Over The Top (OTT) media services, you need to ensure that the performances of your video streaming is good and that your end users are not facing Lag or buffering when using your platform. Delivering  such services with good performances is not a simple […]

UbikLoadPack Video Streaming Plugin 6.1.0 for Apache JMeter

Video Streaming Plugin 6.1.0 for JMeter released Automatic handling of Audio Stream Now the plugin automatically handles the playing simulation of the Audio playlist besides the Video playlist for the 3 formats HLS, Mpeg-Dash and HSS. In case of Live Streaming simulation, it will automatically detect it and also update the corresponding manifest for HLS […]

Why you should seriously consider switching from Commercial Load Testing solutions to Apache JMeter Few months ago we wrote a blog on Why Apache JMeter and Ubik Load Pack is your best load testing tool option . Since then, a lot of things happened in the Load Testing world and the JMeter eco-system which make […]

Load Testing Best Practice : Using JMeter assertions Context: When Load Testing application, a critical and frequently overlooked task is to validate responses obtained under load. A Typical issue is to have application return the wrong response to a request but doing so with a 200 response code. In the latter case JMeter (or any […]

MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012) is a vendor free format that is used to stream content through HTTP requests. It is gaining popularity and its usage increases as many providers allow customers to use this format to deliver content (ie various cloud services, even Microsoft Azure platform allows its customer to use […]