A/B testing has become a common practice that companies use to continually improve and optimize existing products and services due to its ability to evaluate design ideas quickly, precisely, and cheaply. There are multiple A/B testing frameworks and platforms available for companies to use, yet of all the existing ones, currently none use Rust, which is the primary supported language with Fastly’s Compute@Edge (C@E) platform, the serverless execution environment for this project. We designed and developed an end-to-end A/B testing platform compatible with Fastly’s Compute@Edge serverless service offering. The three components of this platform are a Rust Crate (Framework), an API written in Go, and a user interface (UI) written in Javascript using React and Next.js. We thoroughly unit tested these components and system tested the overall platform with an example A/B test, which demonstrated that the platform is a successful minimum viable product. By taking a novel serverless approach to A/B testing, and utilizing the maturity and benefits of the three languages, Fastly can contribute to the business experimentation and serverless communities.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Hatfield, Lauren K.
• Jung, Caitlin R.

Subject

• Learning
• Project-Based Learning
• Industry
• Innovation
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 19801
• E-project-042821-141543

Keyword

• A/B Testing
• Edge
• Go
• Rust
• React
• Serverless

Advisor

• Claypool, Mark L.

Year

• 2021

Sponsor

• Fastly, Inc.

Date created

• 2021-04-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright