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Can you believe that the holiday season is almost upon us? High time for an update from your trusted load testing provider!

​​ Recently AWS made the new ARM processors for Lambda functions generally available. With that change Serverless functions now use Graviton2, said to offer better performance at lower cost. I built a sample API on AWS using API Gateway and Lambda, and I wrote two endpoints, one CPU-intensive (calculating Pi using Leibniz's formula), the other a typical data transfer endpoint (returning an arbitrary number of bytes). Two very different endpoints for my experiment.

k6 Cloud, our managed testing solution, supports Prometheus to store and correlate performance testing metrics within your observability stack since a while now. Announced at Grafana ObservabilityCON, we launched Prometheus support to k6 Open Source - our free, open, and extensible load testing tool. k6 OSS supports sending k6 metrics to multiple outputs such as InfluxDB, New Relic, StatsD, and more.

Artillery is an open-source command-line tool purpose-built for load testing and smoke testing web applications. It is written in JavaScript and it supports testing HTTP, Socket.io, and WebSockets APIs. This article will get you started with load testing your Node.js APIs using Artillery. You’ll be able to detect and fix critical performance issues before you deploy code to production.

We recently announced Ably's Control API, a REST API that enables you to manage Ably's configuration programmatically. You can now use the Control API to configure anything previously only configurable via the Ably dashboard. The Ably platform is designed around four pillars of dependability: Performance, Integrity, Reliability, and Availability.

We’re excited to launch xk6-browser at Grafana ObservabilityCON today, an extension to k6 adding support for browser automation via the Chrome Devtools Protocol (CDP). k6 was built because we weren’t satisfied with the developer experience offered by existing load testing solutions. We believe in shifting performance testing, and with it observability, to the left.

October is over and it’s time to share the newest updates to Loadero that were made during the month. We’ve been working on adding a WebRTC metrics table for a long time, and are very happy to announce that it is available in the results reports. This update makes it very easy to find out about some of the possible issues in video calls. While this might be the most important of the news, we got more stuff to let you improve your tests. Here is what we added to Loadero in October.

As you’re probably aware, C# is a modern, garbage collected language, which means you don’t have to take care of object disposal as you would in languages like C++. However, that doesn’t mean.NET engineers don’t face memory problems, such as memory leaks. In this post, we’ll walk you through the basics of memory leaks in.NET: what they are, how they occur, and why they matter.

You have just clicked the button to run your test, but how soon will the first participant start the test? And when will you be able to explore the results reports? Each test run goes through multiple stages before a results report is generated. In this blog post we are going to explain everything you need to know about test run statuses you can see in Loadero!