Performance Testing Crash Course
summary
Shows concrete load testing recipes: baseline static pages with Siege and ApacheBench, crawl app routes with wget then run concurrency sweeps, simulate realistic scenarios and state with Multi-Mechanize, and scale load via EC2 with Bees with Machine Guns to find the throughput point where latency spikes (examples hit ~100–160 req/s before failure). Covers client-side tools too — Google PageSpeed and WebPageTest — and stresses instrumentation (StatsD/Graphite/Sensu) and failure testing like Chaos Monkey.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to performance testing
- 3:15Why performance matters for business
- 10:26Baseline performance testing tools
- 22:48Distributed load testing with Bees with Machine Guns
- 30:59Client-side performance testing
- 40:50Instrumenting applications for monitoring
- 53:26Testing for failures and edge cases
- 56:13Best practices and key takeaways
- 1:09:21Q&A and closing remarks
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