Load testing with Locust

25/11/2021 41 min Temporada 2021 Episodio 97
Load testing with Locust

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During the recording of this episode, we are in the week of Black Friday. An exciting week for people hunting for bargains. And also for a lot of our colleagues.What this episode coversWhether that is from a commercial point of view or an engineering one.All the eyeballs on our website, bring a lot of traffic. And consequential a lot of load on our systems. In this episode, we focus on one aspect of preparing for a large load: Load Testing. In this episode, we are going to talk about Load Testing with Locust. An open-source load testing tool.Triggered by our guest's presentation during the spaces summit, we wanted to know more about this and share it with you.What is Locust?Why did we start using Locust for Load Testing?Examples of Load tests and Performance tests performed with this toolWhat did we need to setup for it?How to configure your Locust testsHow to run your tests on KubernetesWhat were the challenges?How does it make use of the cloud benefits like scalability?GuestsLeon van Wijk; Full Stack Software Engineer at Craftsmen and engineer in our Logistics TeamNotesDistributed load testing with LocustLocust presentation at the Spaces SummitPerformance testing the Chat App