As your infrastructure is scaling and you start to get more traffic, it’s important to make sure everything works as expected. This is most commonly done through testing, with load testing being the optimal way of verifying the resilience of your services.
Traditionally, load testing has been accomplished via standalone clients, like JMeter. However, as the world of infrastructure has gotten more modern, and organizations are using tools like Kubernetes, it’s important to have a modern toolset as well.
With traditional load testing, you’ll commonly run into one of three major issues:
Scripting load tests takes a lot of time
Load tests typically run in large, complex, end-to-end environments, that are difficult to provision, as well as being expensive for production-scale infrastructure
Data and realistic use cases are impossible to mirror one-to-one, unless you have production data
A more modern approach is to integrate your load-testing tools directly into your infrastructure. If you’re using Kubernetes, that can be accomplished via something like an
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