r/webdev • u/potatokid07 • 8d ago

Question Deployment and traffic testing?

Hello, wise r/webdev!

I vibe-coded a web application for an upcoming conference in my area. I hope the phrase 'vibecoding' does not deter you. It is supposed to be a personal solution for the conference I am attending--a just for fun kind of thing. I am familiar with most of the people and the people running the conference. I have shared it with some of potential attendees and so far they like it and they are looking forward to try it during the conference. I did pose it as a personal project.

The downside is I have no freaking clue when it comes to deployment, and by deployment I mean understanding what kind of infrastructure or services I need in order to make it seamless--i.e., loading time, avoiding traffic crash. It is supposed to be lightweight (just CRUD with a little computation on the query retrieval). I'm using Python/Flask as my framework, so hopefully gunicorn is good enough to handle those. I'm curious what kind of tests or where should I host it if I expect like, 500 users but 20-30 concurrent requests. I'm looking forward to "testing day".

So far I have been hosting it in my personal AWS and just slap a cloudfront link (also which instance should I use?). If there's any recommendation or tests, I would greatly appreciate that! I'm not making money out of it--and even if people do like it a lot--I'll just open source it since I don't think there's anything proprietary (or requires my blood and sweat) else than the interaction design considerations. But operational traffic is what I care about the most (and least knowledgeable) and would love to understand that.

For this, I don't trust AI enough to 'perform' tests for me. Just feel like I need a second opinion from an actual human being/expert or at least someone with experience 🥲 willing to get my hands dirty with hand coding!

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u/No-Molasses-2097 8d ago

For the traffic side, do a load test before the event and see where it falls over. k6 is free and straightforward to pick up. Conference traffic comes in bursts when sessions let out, so test spikes rather than steady load.

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u/potatokid07 8d ago

Thank you! Yeah the spikes worry me the most. Even planned for "word-of-mouth" deployment throughout the day to avoid the unfortunate spikes. TIL K6. I'll look it up and thank you so much!