Qit – A Web-Based Sign-Up Application

Sammanfattning: Students wishing to attend student events, as well as the event organisers, currentlyface several inconveniences at the sign-up occasion, due to prevailing solutions’ lack ofdeep consideration for efficiency. This report investigates how a web-based sign-up appli-cation for student events can be implemented to handle high server traffic, by developingand testing a solution that allows for a quick sign-up process, payment directly at the sign-up occasion and the gathering of relevant attendee information.By considering code optimization strategies and the change of database from SQLite toMongoDB, based on the prevailing literature on the topic, a test script together with hightraffic testing was utilised to measure the relative performance of each of these implemen-tations, relative to the initial web-application. Results show that all four aspects tested weresignificant in terms of improving the handling of high traffic. Based on this, the conclusiondrawn was that all four aspects: time optimization, space optimization, minification, and adocument-based database, should be considered when improving a web-application thatallows for handling of high traffic. This finding confirms the prevailing literature on thetopic, however, the implementation phase also raised suggestions for future and improvedresearch on the topic.