How Interdiscount prepared Black Friday traffic using Gatling Enterprise

As an omni-channel retailer, Interdiscount faces huge amounts of traffic during the holiday season. Events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday can create huge spikes of traffic that can lead to performance issues and website crashes. 

To avoid any crashes or performance issues, Interdiscount searched for a tool that would help discover their application’s limitations, maintain resilience, and ensure stability during high traffic seasons. 

In 2018, Interdiscount implemented Gatling Enterprise integrated with Jenkins to enable perform load and performance tests during the development process.

With Gatling Enterprise, Interdiscount began load-testing to determine their application’s bottlenecks. With soak testing, they ensured there are no memory leaks and with peak testing, they ensured the application's capacity to efficiently handle traffic even during the peak times of holiday season. They use Gatling Enterprise’s runs’ history to compare the performance of their application before and after deploying changes to the site to make sure they maintain equal or better performance.

Since the integration of Gatling Enterprise, smooth management of traffic, even during the holiday season.

Since Interdiscount began using Gatling Enterprise they haven’t run into any issues with traffic during Black Fridays or Cyber Monday and have been able to keep their site up and running even under strenuous traffic conditions.