The Importance of Realistic Benchmarks

Assumptions are the enemy of stability. Understanding the point at which a system transitions from efficient to saturated is essential for maintaining uptime and ensuring a consistent and reliable user experience. Identifying these limits requires more than estimation—it demands rigorous, reproducible, and scalable load testing under realistic conditions.

This session will demonstrate how to use a new tool created specifically for MongoDB, plgm: Percona Load Generator for MongoDB Clusters, to perform realistic benchmarks based on your own collections and queries.