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