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Ask HN: How do you do Load Testing this 2022?

by johndavid9991 on 7/10/22, 6:53 AM with 7 comments

• by ericb on 7/10/22, 12:42 PM

  At BrowserUp we built the first DRY (don't repeat yourself) load testing tool. The rough idea:

  * Most orgs take a sprint to write load tests in a separate tool/language (Jmeter, for example).

  * Re-using integration and end-to-end tests or even Postman requests for load lets you release fully tested software sooner

  * Let your teams use the language and tool they know to write the tests, then we containerize and scale that in your EC2 account, because by-the-minute hardware is cheap, dev-hours spent in Jmeter are expensive.

  * The dev teams/QA folk can do testing rather than waiting for the "Jmeter" specialist

  Let me know if you would like a demo

• by Raed667 on 7/10/22, 12:55 PM

  I have used K6 for a couple of one-shot projects and it seems very capable.

  https://k6.io/

• by grigduta on 7/13/22, 12:58 PM

  you can check the premise of EaaS to help you with on-demand, isolated testing environments where you can break things with load testing. the cool thing is that it can replicate production-like setups so tests are predictable. Hope this helps. (disclaimer, I work for an EaaS company, www.bunnyshell.com)

• by politelemon on 7/10/22, 8:42 AM

  Tried, tested and true solutions: JMeter and ab, both by Apache

• by mkranjec on 7/10/22, 8:02 AM

  GoReplay seems worth trying out https://goreplay.org/

  Unfortunately, haven't used it beyond demo. Yet.