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February 2022

How to design a workload model in k6, with the k6 Developer Advocates (k6 Office Hours #42)

In this video, k6 Developer Advocates Paul Balogh, Leandro Melendez, and Nicole van der Hoeven talk about workload modeling design in k6, what workload modeling even is, and how you can use scenarios and executors to create realistic load tests.

Introducing Grafana k6 Cloud for Education, a free program to help teach performance testing

Grafana k6 is our open source tool to help you ship reliable applications by doing performance testing in a modern and developer-friendly way. Performance testing is still unknown to many, but it is not a new topic. In fact, performance testing courses are everywhere — even at colleges and universities. One of our passions is to educate others on the best practices of performance testing, working together with the k6 community.

Getting started with using xk6 extensions, with Paul Balogh (k6 Office Hours #41)

Paul Balogh, Developer Advocate, talks to Nicole van der Hoeven about what k6 extensions are, how to use them, and why extensions are so important for a load testing tool like k6. Paul also shares his experience in being one of the newest members to join the k6 team.

Using executors and stages in k6 with Théo Crevon (k6 Office Hours #40)

Théo Crevon, Senior Software Engineer on the k6 OSS team, joins Nicole van der Hoeven to talk about how executors and stages work in k6, and how they can be used to create load profiles. Théo only recently joined k6, and he's already started working on how to improve scheduling in k6 and making other improvements to how the k6 engine performs.

Store k6 metrics in TimescaleDB and visualize with Grafana

​ TimescaleDB is a open-source database that extends PostgreSQL for better storage, processing, and analysis of time-series data at scale. If you want to know more about TimescaleDB, I recommend you look at the official documentation. k6 is an open-source and extensible load testing tool that generates the results of the testing (k6 metrics) as time-series data. k6 can send metrics to various formats and systems.