Load Testing You Always Wanted
summary
A team developing a new high‑load product shares practical load‑testing experience and tools used beyond JMeter/ab/Gatling. The talk covers measuring service limits (parallel requests vs latency, DB throughput, push notification delay, distributed transaction latencies), tools and approaches for testing databases and microservices, designing Pull/Push tests and adapting them to HTTP, WebSockets and SSE, and common problems measuring latency.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:50Load testing needed
- 7:20Microservice testing challenges
- 10:51Load testing basics & metrics
- 13:42Tool problems
- 18:40Custom load tool
- 26:28Database testing case studies
- 30:43Distributed cluster testing
- 39:17Q&A
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