Dog Food Can Be Delicious
summary
Company builds a reproducible benchmark pipeline that compiles Grafana from a commit, provisions it, runs K6 tests, and stores results; initial prototype is 93x slower until syncing main yields an 8% improvement and later runs record up to 87,000 requests and thousands of responses per run. The productized Bench platform sits in rolling release gates, sends data to K6 Cloud for traces, and is now running in production to detect regressions and guard performance.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and awkward moments
- 5:22Engineering at scale challenges
- 12:46Building a benchmarking prototype
- 19:48Hackathon and platform pivot
- 25:06Selling the project across teams
- 27:15Reflections and impact
- 29:42Live demo of Bench
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