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Modern Software Development For Today's Systems & Applications
March 2023
What Is Load Testing?
Load testing is a big category, and how do you even start preparing for it? This post covers it all from planning to implementation.
Using custom SSL certificates in Loadero tests
In today’s digital age, security has become a top priority for businesses of all sizes. With the increasing number of cyber-attacks and data breaches, ensuring that your website and applications are secure is essential. Usually, access to websites that are actively being developed or are intended for private/internal usage within an organization is restricted. A common way to do this is with custom SSL certificates. This ensures that the website won’t be publicly available.
AMA with the k6 Champions Part 2 (k6 Office Hours #84)
Did you miss our first AMA with the k6 champions? Do you have k6-related questions that you want to ask? Well, you're in luck! Join Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Leandro Melendez in this second AMA (Ask Me Anything) Office Hours episode as we chat with two more of our k6 Champions, Jose Luis Latorre and Ioannis Papadakis, to answer your questions, talk about their experiences so far of being a champion, their current activities, and much more.
Performance Testing: The What, Why, and How
Performance testing uses workflows in parallel to test a system’s infrastructure to ensure a product works successfully for many users at the same time.
Chaos Testing: Building Resilience early in the development cycle
Modern applications are built on a microservices architecture that leverages cloud-native technologies. This architecture has many benefits regarding scalability and fault-tolerance of individual components, but it also increases the complexity of the applications, mostly due to the interdependencies between services. This complexity makes it difficult for engineers to fully understand how their applications will react to abnormal conditions, such as a dependency failure or performance degradation.
Browser Testing with k6
Browser automation should be an important part of your performance testing strategy, especially with web applications. In this video, get to know our k6 browser module. This experimental module provides browser-level APIs that let you automate tests from a browser perspective and collect frontend performance metrics as part of your existing k6 scripts.
Introducing Grafana Cloud k6: How to run load tests with Grafana and k6
Grafana Cloud k6 is a feature available to all users of Grafana Cloud. It allows you to run load and performance tests right from the comfort of your Grafana Cloud instance, without needing to create a separate account on k6 Cloud. Grafana Cloud k6 helps you get started quickly with a GUI Test Builder or with test scripts written in JavaScript, and then visualize your test results in real-time, alongside your other Grafana dashboards that monitor your system infrastructure. With Grafana Cloud k6, you can get a holistic look at your system's performance-- on any environment.
k-SIX News - Breaking News! Grafana Cloud k6 launch
Announcing the launch of Grafana Cloud k6! The k6 Cloud platform is finally available as a new offering within Grafana Cloud that empowers developers, operations and QA teams to prevent system failures and consistently deliver fast and reliable applications. The announcement comes directly from Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO. Paul Balogh gives a tour through the new clouds in his weather segment, closing with the usual fun and bloopers.
Grafana Cloud k6: observability and performance testing in the same platform (k6 Office Hours #83)
With the release of Grafana Cloud k6, you can get observability and performance testing in the same platform. Senior Product Manager Mark Meier and Frontend Lead Simon Legander join Nicole van der Hoeven to talk about what Grafana Cloud k6 is, how you can use it, and demonstrate what it can do to improve your system's reliability.
Introducing Grafana Cloud k6: unified performance testing and observability
Organizations use load and performance testing to prevent issues from impacting customers, which is essential if they want to stay relevant in today’s digital-first world. And with the rise of cloud native technology and DevOps, software teams must shift performance testing left, towards development. However, traditional load and performance testing tools simply haven’t kept pace, leaving developers, operations, and QA teams siloed.
Experimental modules in k6 (k6 Office Hours #82)
Experimental modules in k6 were released in v0.40, and new modules for distributed tracing and browser testing have been added since. In this video, k6 Senior Software Engineer Théo Crevon talks to Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Nicole van der Hoeven about what experimental modules are and how to use them.
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Continuous Load Testing | A Developer's Guide
Continuous load testing is a powerful way of preparing for surges in traffic, without needing real users. Imagine you're a software engineer working on a website that's seen a recent surge in traffic. Despite initial testing indicating that the website should be capable of handling the increased load, the website crashes during peak hours. Load Testing is the process of simulating real-world usage of a website or application. The continuous version is when you integrate it into your development process as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
How to build custom k6 using Docker #shorts
Do you need a custom build of k6 using extensions but don't have Go configured? Paul Balogh walks you through the steps to build a custom k6 binary using Docker; no Go necessary!
Running k6 tests in TestKube (k6 Office Hours #81)
k6 is so flexible that you can run it in multiple platforms. TestKube is one of those platforms who has decided to integrate k6 into their open source capabilities. Join the conversation between Leandro (SrPerf) and Alejandra Thomas from TestKube, who comes to share all about k6 in TestKube!
Load Testing Made Simpler with Resource Object Model
Load testing, which is as a type of non-functional testing that puts a structure or system under pressure and measures its response, might sound boring. In reality the entire process of planning, estimating, and implementing load tests against the system is like putting together pieces of a complex puzzle, and it can be a lot of fun.
What's New In Loadero (February 2023)
The short month of February was a time of intensive work in Loadero, and while some of the biggest updates are coming soon, we have some news about what has been added to Loadero recently. Below are the updates we’ve done.
How do you know what might be a performance issue? #shorts
How do you know what might be a performance issue when looking at the architectural diagram? Paul Balogh talks about the importance of using observability tools when testing for performance, establishing baselines, and looking at production to determine high-risk areas.