performance testing
we've been using vegeta for years, time to try something new too
load testing
spike testing
soak testing
k6
to run a sample script, execute load-test.sh
terms:
- vu
- vu code (default)
- init code (everything else)
- options
- vus
- duration
- stages
reading:
- https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/k6/
- https://k6.io/docs/getting-started/running-k6/
- https://k6.io/docs/getting-started/results-output/
- https://k6.io/docs/results-visualization/datadog/
- https://k6.io/docs/results-visualization/statsd/
To run the docker-compose.yml load test, execute: docker-compose run --rm load-test run --out statsd - <script.js.