This week I spent most of my time working on the design presentation with my group. I worked on researching about the use of Django and NGINX to create a web application for our video server. I planned the best course of action to work on a web app considering that we do not have access to our AWS credits.
I also worked on researching different EC2 instance types as well as the tradeoffs between using each one. We have now narrowed down the instance type which will allow us to effectively create a multi tier architecture to simulate user testing and load.
I also worked on coming up with a testing plan for user simulation. I researched into user testing of web apps and came up with a testing plan for each quantitative metric associated with the front end of our application. I determined that running 30 devices (or VMs) sending between 1 and 50 requests every 10 mins will be appropriate for benchmarking each of the metrics.