Transactions per second

Measure how many blocks per second are created on the bigchain with a pre filled backlog.

Deploy an aws cluster http://bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deploy-on-aws.html
Make a symbolic link to hostlist.py: ln -s ../deploy-cluster-aws/hostlist.py .
Make a symbolic link to bigchaindb.pem:

mkdir pem
cd pem
ln -s ../deploy-cluster-aws/pem/bigchaindb.pem .

Then:

fab put_benchmark_utils
fab set_statsd_host:<hostname of the statsd server>
fab prepare_backlog:<num txs per node> # wait for process to finish
fab start_bigchaindb