%% Last Updated: - [[2021-02-09]] %% After analysing the data they had from previous years, they decided on a load test that had this load profile:  - [[Hotstar]]'s load profile for their Indian Premier League 2018 tests through Flood. - Source: https://blog.hotstar.com/millons-scale-simulations-1602befe1ce5 The spikes in load correspond to the start of cricket games. This spiky profile means that they had to test at higher levels of load for a short period of time, instead of testing with a lower user count for a longer time. In this case, using the average number of users throughout the day would have drastically oversimplified things. Given that their load tests required 4 million concurrent users, that small change in the workload model could have negatively impacted their results and performance during the games in production. ## See also - [[Load Profile]]