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September 2021

Intro to load testing with k6 and Grafana (k6 data source plugin and Prometheus Remote Write)

Nicole van der Hoeven talks about what performance testing is, why it's the other half of observability, and the easiest way to run a test using k6 while seeing the results on Grafana. She mentions integration options, involving the k6 Grafana data source plugin as well as how to utilize Prometheus Remote Write to visualize k6 load testing results along with other metrics to Grafana. This is a pre-recording walkthrough of the live webinar Nicole did for Grafana Labs on September 16th, 2021.

How to Load Test Your Kafka Producers and Consumers using k6

Recently, k6 started supporting k6 extensions to extend k6 capabilities for other cases required by the community. The community has already built plenty of extensions. k6 extensions are written in Go, and many of them are reusing existing Go libraries. This makes k6 to be a versatile tool to test different protocols and adapt to multiple cases. This post is the third part of my series of articles testing various systems using k6: Let's look in this post how we test the popular Kafka project.

Chaos testing with k6, Prometheus, and Grafana (Schrödinger's Pokémon)

In this presentation, Nicole van der Hoeven talks about what chaos engineering is, what it has to do with testing, and how to run chaos experiments and load tests in the same script, using k6. She also talks about how to set up Grafana and Prometheus for observability during chaos testing.

How GitLab uses k6-- and how you can do it too, with Grant Young (k6 Office Hours #27)

Grant Young, Software Engineer in Test at GitLab, talks to Nicole and Mihail from k6 about how GitLab uses k6 for internal load testing, and why they decided to include k6 in GitLab Premium so their users can run load tests easily, too. This episode of k6 Office Hours is pre-recorded-- Nicole had a presentation this week at TestCon Europe, so she needed some time to prepare and to watch other presentations.

How We Work at k6 - Remote and 8-week Work Cycles

August 7, I joined the Office Hours our Developer Relations team runs on a weekly basis, to talk about how we work at k6. We are growing rapidly, and are a little unconventional in how we organize ourselves, so I thought it would be a good idea to share in more detail how we build and ship software, being a remote-only company.