jjnp / responder

Responds to http requests after a set delay. Useful for load testing of network components such as load balancers, and other research topics.

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Responder

This is a very simple web-app which simply always returns HTTP status code 200. It will also wait for an amount of time which can be set in URL parameters.

It's intended use is as a simulated upstream when evaluating network components in distributed systems. My use case for example was to evaluate the performance profile and resource consumption of load balancers.

Parametrization

/static?delay=<delay in ms> e.g. /static?delay=25 /uniform?from=<from delay in ms>&to=<to delay in ms> e.g. /uniform?from=10&to=50 /lognorm?mean=<mean ms>&stdev=<standard deviation ms> e.g. /lognorm?mean=25&stdev=25

You can also always use those without parameters. In this case the following defaults are used:

/static time=25
/uniform from=10&to=30
/lognorm mean=25&stdev=10

Request structure

Apart from the URL and POST request type, you can use any request you like, with any other parameters you like. Nothing will happen.

Response structure

Response will always be HTTP 200 OK, with a placeholder JSON response body:

{
  "first": 0.12345,
  "second": 0.12345,
  "third": 0.12345,
  "forth": 0.12345,
  "fifth": 0.12345,
  "sixth": 0.12345
}

Feel free the change this in code should your use case require something else.

Building

Generally you will build this just like you would any other go app. I won't explain how to build a go app here.

Docker

For debugging or simple local execution you can run the default Dockerfile in the root directory.

Depending on what your goals are you may need to build multi-arch docker images to make everything run on ARM systems as well. To this end use the convenience scripts like so scripts/docker-build-multiarch.sh <your version tag>.

To push you can use a script too: scripts/docker-push-all.sh <your version tag>.

Please note that in the scripts the image name is set as jjnp/responder. Feel free to change this to push images to whatever repository you need them in.

Hint: In case there are build errors with the ARM images you might need to run the following command first, as described here

docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes

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Responds to http requests after a set delay. Useful for load testing of network components such as load balancers, and other research topics.

License:MIT License


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