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GSoC 2020 Program Timeline
  • January 14 - Organization applications open
  • February 20 - Accepted GSoC Organizations announced
  • March 16-March 31 - Students submit their proposals
  • April 27 - Accepted students are announced
  • April 27-May 18 - Community bonding period with orgs
  • May 18-Aug 17 - Students code the summer away
  • August 25 - Successful student projects are announced
Statistics
  • In 15 years 15,926 students from 109 countries have been accepted into GSoC
  • Countries with the most students: India (4,065), United States (2,552), and Germany (870 )
  • Approximately 36+ million lines of code have been produced
Project Ideas
SMI Conformance Testing
Distributed Load Testing of Service Meshes
  • Description: Many performance benchmarks are limited to single instance load generation (single pod load generator). This limits the amount of traffic that can be generated to output of the single machine that the benchmark tool runs on in or out of a cluster. Overcoming this limitation would allow for more flexible and robust testing. Distributed load testing in parallel poses a challenge when merging results without losing the precision we need to gain insight into the high tail percentiles. Use Meshery’s interface for supporting different load generators (a point of extensibility) to place support for Vegeta. Workloads running on service meshes are hit in various ways and generally not from the same source. Use of a distributed load generator will aid in the testing of service mesh behavior.
  • Recommended Skills: Golang, Kubernetes
  • Mentor(s): Prateek Sahu (@PrateekSahu22), Kanishkar J (@_kanishkarj_)
  • Issue(s): https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy-perf/issues/72
 

 

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