How we work at k6 - building software & working remotely with CTO Pawel Suwala (k6 Office Hours #23)

How we work at k6 - building software & working remotely with CTO Pawel Suwala (k6 Office Hours #23)

k6
Aug 7, 2021

In this episode of k6 Office Hours, Nicole is joined by Pawel Suwala, CTO of k6, to give you a sneak peek of how we work at k6, and what we're working on next. We're going to talk about the methodology we use for creating k6, the different teams we have, and exciting new features that are coming soon!

TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Introduction to Pawel 3:40 How do we build software at k6? Software methodology, cycle length, etc 11:07 Plans for the growth of k6's team: We are hiring! 20:29 How do we figure out what to work on? 23:29 Data management for several GB/sec of load testing data 28:07 What are we working on at k6 right now? - k6 data source plugin for Grafana demo 40:58 Upcoming changes to k6 Cloud: APM provider selection (Grafana Cloud, New Relic, Datadog, Azure Monitor) 44:32 Browser-based testing feature and rewriting our entire API and documenting it better 48:45 New k6 extensions via xk6 56:24 Our favorite scenes from the first book of Dune

k6 Cloud Feature Request: https://github.com/grafana/k6-cloud-feature-requests k6 Data Source Plugin for Grafana: https://k6.io/docs/cloud/integrations/grafana-plugin/ k6 Prometheus Remote Write Plugin: https://www.youtube.com/watch

More Office Hours: https://www.youtube.com/playlist

Nicole on Twitter: https://twitter.com/n_vanderhoeven Pawel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pawelsuwala/

Learn more about k6: Website: https://k6.io Repo: https://github.com/grafana/k6