Here's an overview of how to do cloud load testing with k6, including a comprehensive look at all the offerings and services that k6 can provide to help you with your performance testing.

In this office hours, Nicole van der Hoeven and Simme Aronsson are joined by Gary Spencer from New Relic to talk about observability and performance testing.

In this pilot episode of our podcast, we talk about public outages over the holidays, our personal experiences with outages, and how we think companies can prevent public failures.

The v0.30 release of k6 added a way to share test data across virtual users, customization options for the output summary, and the ability to pass binary bodies with HTTP requests.

JMeter vs k6: which open-source load testing is right for you? JMeter is a decades-old Java-based tool that is a crowd favorite, but k6 is a modern, Go-based tool that has significant advantages over JMeter in many situations.

Simon Aronsson giving an introduction on how to do performance testing with open-source tools. Recorded 14th January 2021 at the Passion for Testing online meetup.

Nicole wraps up her week of testing with k6 with an overview of her impressions while using k6 and k6 Cloud, comparing it to her experience with other load testing tools like JMeter. She mentions k6's code-first approach as being both its biggest advantage and disadvantage, and talks a bit about testing test tools for speed. k6 on Twitter: @k6_io.

How do you get started with the k6 open-source load testing tool? Here's a step-by-step walkthrough of installing k6 and running your very first load test. Timestamps below! Note from Nicole: I realized after this video that I was mixing `let` and `var` in this video. They have different implications on scope, and I would recommend you use `let` or `const` in your own scripts.

So you've got your load testing scripts. What next? How do you ramp it up and run it at scale on the cloud? In this video, Nicole shows how easy it is to kick off a load test using k6 Cloud.