Developer Advocates and testers Marie Cruz and Nicole van der Hoeven talk all about web performance and best practices for making websites faster. What's the difference between performance testing a website vs. an API? What are some things you should keep in mind when testing a web app?

This week's show is about performance testing for beginners, where our technical writer, Matt Dodson, asks all the questions about load and performance testing that you were always afraid to ask. :) Matt joins Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh in discussing core principles of performance testing.

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We're talking about the future of k6 with CEO Robin Gustafsson and CTO Pawel Suwala. What's next for k6? What new features are we working on? What's the plan for further integrations with Grafana? What are the plans for the k6 team as we transition out of the honeymoon period after the Grafana acquisition?

Marie Drake, the newest Developer Advocate to join the k6 team, shares her experience in getting started with xk6-browser: how to install it, issues she encountered, and the state of browser testing with k6 as she sees it.

Senior Software Engineer Mostafa Moradian joins us to talk about load testing Apache Kafka using k6 and the extension he created, called xk6-kafka. He describes what Kafka is, the basics of Kafka, and why he thinks load testing it is important. Mostafa works on the backend team at k6/Grafana Labs. // REFERENCES We used some video clips from these awesome people: And here are other resources we mentioned.

What is the difference between resilience testing and chaos testing? SteadyBit CEO and co-founder Benjamin Wilms talks about how to integrate SteadyBit with k6 for both resilience and chaos, and why he prefers "chaos testing" to "chaos engineering".

What is browser testing, and do we really need it? What does browser or automation testing have to do with load testing? Our new colleague, Marie Drake, joins us today to talk about why she joined k6 and why she is an advocate for browser testing.

What are some observability trends and best practices in 2022 and going forward? Technical Program Manager Daniel González Lopes joins Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh to chat about trending concepts and new areas of exploration in the field of observability. We're going to talk about distributed tracing, continuous profiling, eBPF monitoring, and more!

In June 2021, CEO Raj Dutt announced that k6 had become part of the Grafana Labs family, and the year that followed has been replete with changes in features, organizational structure, and overall culture within the k6 team. In this video, Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh reflect on everything that's happened in the last year and how k6 has fared 1 year after the acquisition.