ndt-server VS OpenFaaS

Data source: https://www.measurementlab.net

I get a test from https://www.measurementlab.net/ with it. Do realize that I'm from Europe and that testing a connection with an overseas server has a major impact on performance.

This is one of the better ones, but you can run whatever one you want, just don't use speedtest.net as they're trash now.

Tests are using the first hit when Googling "Speedtest" which connects to https://www.measurementlab.net/

To be specific in my thought here: we could fairly easily allow an admin to modify the endpoint in our client to measure loss & latency to an internal address or service in the cloud rather than our default. Speeds on the other hand are something we can't support just yet as it would require a test server near that endpoint. For what it's worth, the speed test application we use does have other examples for deploying your own test server. We'd need to do a deep dive into what that looks like from an engineering and business perspective before enabling teams to spin these up and use them as targets.

At a RIPE meeting I received this tip. Run an NDT test on https://www.measurementlab.net Although my skepticism at first I always seem to be getting a reliable response.

Google now uses https://www.measurementlab.net when you search for Speed Test so I have that bookmarked now

one possible solution: https://www.measurementlab.net/tests/ndt/

Well that is interesting, it's definitely something with googles built in speed test (thru https://www.measurementlab.net/).

I was just using speedtest.com and measurementlab.net/ before.

Serverless functions are now offered by many cloud providers, as well as having options like OpenFaaS, Knative, Apache's Openwhisk and more from the open source community that run in environments ranging from one server all the way up to globally replicated private clusters.

OpenFaaS

Did you consider running knative or openfaas? https://github.com/openfaas/faas

Anyone knows other alternatives for Azure Functions, but for DIY hosting? ( eg. OpenFaas - https://www.openfaas.com/ )

Maybe OpenFaaS with grafana and slack notifications for non-200 responses?

OpenFaaS - https://www.openfaas.com

By the way, if your organization is leveraging EKS as a platform and your DevOps team is willing to enable this operator, there's an exciting tool called OpenFaaS. Essentially, it enables you to host your Lambda functions on your own infrastructure instead of relying on the public cloud provider.

This is where I see K8S coming in – teachers can provide dev deployments that are setup for students to learn. Teachers can also provide containers that run automated tests against the student containers for assessment! Plus, we can smooth over some of the git workflow stuff for the ripest of beginners; we can integrate with github to sync their work on our platform to repositories on their github account, so that they can really take ownership of the work they do on the platform. Last, students can graduate their work from development into production very easily, since we can take the base images + student diffs, build a new "prod" image for the student. We can run students' prod work on "serverless" K8S frameworks like fission or OpenFaas to be able to host many low-traffic "production" apps at the same time.