Workshop: Continuous Performance with k6 and Grafana

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A hands-on demo showing how to build a continuous performance pipeline with k6, Prometheus, Grafana and Jenkins: synthetic checks from k6 (including a k6 extension and an experimental k6-browser) push metrics into Prometheus and Grafana dashboards, and Jenkins jobs clone the repo, restart a local Node test service, run k6, and fail the build when thresholds/SLOs are breached. The demo also describes cloud k6 for distributed generators (single generator reached ~40k virtual users) and notes some practical IP/configuration hiccups during the live run.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:33Performance concepts
3. 10:49Load testing efficiency
4. 20:22Installing k6
5. 31:18Basic scripting
6. 40:21k6 vs other tools
7. 56:14k6 Grafana Prometheus
8. 1:03:24Monitoring alerts
9. 1:15:03Jenkins setup
10. 1:25:47Pipeline demo
11. 1:45:36Summary FAQ

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