K-SIX News - September 2022 Roundup
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https://k6.io/blog/k6-product-update-v0-40/
Latest k6 OSS release:
https://github.com/grafana/k6/releases/tag/v0.40.0
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Modern Software Development For Today's Systems & Applications
September 2022
The future of k6, with the k6 CEO and CTO (k6 Office Hours #64)
We're talking about the future of k6 with CEO Robin Gustafsson and CTO Pawel Suwala. What's next for k6? What new features are we working on? What's the plan for further integrations with Grafana? What are the plans for the k6 team as we transition out of the honeymoon period after the Grafana acquisition?
Migrating WebRTC Tests From TestRTC To Loadero
Quite often we get requests to provide support to migrate tests from the testRTC testing tool to our service. We try to provide support to our users to help make this transition as easy and flawless as possible. To ease the process further for other users with similar needs this blog post was created.
Peeking under the hood of k6 Cloud
This article shows some of the complexity that the k6 cloud backend handles when you run a k6 Cloud test.
Getting started with xk6 browser, with Marie Drake (k6 Office Hours #63)
Marie Drake, the newest Developer Advocate to join the k6 team, shares her experience in getting started with xk6-browser: how to install it, issues she encountered, and the state of browser testing with k6 as she sees it.
k6 v0.40.0, the latest in k6 Cloud, ObservabilityCon 2022, xk6-browser v0.5.0, and more
Hi there, Here at k6, we’re constantly shipping new features to help our users get the most out of k6. In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of all the k6 and k6 Cloud news, updates, and improvements you should know about.
Kubernetes Load Testing: Speedscale vs NeoLoad
In this article, you’ll be introduced to two tools: Speedscale and NeoLoad. Both of these tools offer you a way to load test your applications. This post will compare their ease of setup, development experience, fit within a modern infrastructure, and integration into CI/CD. Load testing is not a new concept in any way: the term was common even before Google Trends started recording data in 2004.
Beyond Uptime: API Performance and Load Testing
With mobile app and API performance top-of-mind at most companies, why do development, testing and SRE teams continue to trust in traditional stress/load tests and uptime or synthetic monitors that provide only a false sense of security about performance in the real world?
Load testing Apache Kafka using k6, with Mostafa Moradian (k6 Office Hours #62)
Senior Software Engineer Mostafa Moradian joins us to talk about load testing Apache Kafka using k6 and the extension he created, called xk6-kafka. He describes what Kafka is, the basics of Kafka, and why he thinks load testing it is important. Mostafa works on the backend team at k6/Grafana Labs. // REFERENCES We used some video clips from these awesome people: And here are other resources we mentioned.
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High Scale Postman Load Testing for Kubernetes
In this Postman load testing tutorial, you'll learn how to run a large scale load test in Kubernetes using your existing Postman collections. Because HTTP services don't have a graphical user interface, it's common to build collections of requests using Postman during the development process. These collections are useful for running quick functionality tests as you develop each endpoint. However, as the service grows you eventually need to test it in a more realistic way with larger volume. This is called a load or stress test. Speedscale is a Production Data Simulation Platform that includes this stress/load testing capability out of the box.
Resilience and chaos testing with SteadyBit and k6, with Benjamin Wilms (k6 Office Hours #61)
What is the difference between resilience testing and chaos testing? SteadyBit CEO and co-founder Benjamin Wilms talks about how to integrate SteadyBit with k6 for both resilience and chaos, and why he prefers "chaos testing" to "chaos engineering".
You Can't Just Buy a Nine
At a former employer, my Vice President of Engineering and Operations had a reputation for his language. He also had a reputation for his deep passion for things like site availability, incidents, downtime, and almost anything related to making sure the company's website was up and running, and especially that the end users were having a good experience using it.