Performance Testing Rest APIs
summary
Constant Contact builds a reusable REST test library in Groovy/Java that uses Apache HTTP Client for requests, the Akka actor model for non‑blocking concurrency, and Apache Commons Math to compute min/max/avg/stddev/percentiles (including the 95th percentile). Tests hit up to ~1,000 concurrent requests in examples, persist per‑request metrics to a database, run from CI for trending, avoid logging during runs, and report server metrics (CPU, DB connections) via New Relic/Splunk; the system runs in production for a year with no threading failures.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:49Developer Portal
- 3:57Problem Domain
- 4:44Lesson 1 Be Dry
- 13:02Lesson 2 Choose Carefully
- 17:17Back to akka
- 20:07Performance Test Plan
- 26:02ClientServer Statistics
- 28:31Visualization
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