There comes a time to benchmark your application and its services . However, if it’s not done properly, then your results can very misleading. In this post, I’ll throw some numbers at you to demonstrate the massive differences between benchmarking locally, on production, and locally pointing at a cloud resource. The numbers for each set of tests are different by an order of magnitude, demonstrating the importance of using the proper setup.

http://blog.nrowegt.com/why-you-should-benchmark-with-production-services-redis-edition/