Application load testing should be performed using a suitable tool (wrk). This will allow us to ascertain whether further optimisation is required (e.g. using gevent threads in Django and database connection pooling per this article by the Arxiv developers).
However, we should not perform this testing on the production deployment: for one, we could affect other hosted services; but also the WAF should filter for exactly this case (basically a DoS attack).
Application load testing should be performed using a suitable tool (
wrk). This will allow us to ascertain whether further optimisation is required (e.g. using gevent threads in Django and database connection pooling per this article by the Arxiv developers).However, we should not perform this testing on the production deployment: for one, we could affect other hosted services; but also the WAF should filter for exactly this case (basically a DoS attack).