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Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

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Post by rhl314 »

Please meet Loadjitsu, my weekend project, years in the making.

Over the years while building different apps and sites, I always felt that I need a modern load testing software.Tools like JMeter, ab are not very easy to use and it seems innovation in load testing which is a crucial part of any software release cycle has been ignored.

This is my third attempt at making Loadjitsu, I am so glad that I can finaly release this.

A bit more about the software 1. Powered by golang you can run load tests for tens of thousands of connections per second on very average hardware. 2. Cross platform, run it on Windows or Mac or host it on your linux machines 3. Lets you load test databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongodb out of the box. 4. Will keep adding more load testing targets in the future (even the more esoteric ones)

I hope to open source Loadjitsu soon and let users contribute new targets. Hope this makes load testing fun again

Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter
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Post by idoubtit »

JMeter has literally hundreds more features than this. This tool (apart from the non-free licence) seems more similar to `ab` and the dozens other http benchmarking tools (like siege, wrk, httperf, and others I haven't tried), with an added basic GUI.

The last time I used JMeter to load test a site, I simulated many users: each thread logged into the site with its own account, selected a course (it was a LMS, Learning Management System), then opened a quiz, randomly answered all the questions, etc. Various metrics and graphs (e.g. RPS, 1%-quantiles of latency...) were used to estimate the maximal capacity of the web site. I also had a JMeter plugin that extracted perf data from the HTML responses. JMeter is a complex beast, and I'm not fan of its XML config and Java/Beanshell scripts... but I don't see this as a replacement in any way.

Re: Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

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Post by shawnz »

idoubtit wrote: post #4

JMeter has literally hundreds more features than this. This tool (apart from the non-free licence) seems more similar to `ab` and the dozens other http benchmarking tools (like siege, wrk, httperf, and others I haven't tried), with an added basic GUI. The last time I used JMeter to load test a site, I simulated many users: each thread logged into the site with its own account, selected a course (it was a LMS, Learnin…

Whatever eventually displaces JMeter has got to start somewhere.

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Post by ohashi »

idoubtit wrote: post #4

JMeter has literally hundreds more features than this. This tool (apart from the non-free licence) seems more similar to `ab` and the dozens other http benchmarking tools (like siege, wrk, httperf, and others I haven't tried), with an added basic GUI. The last time I used JMeter to load test a site, I simulated many users: each thread logged into the site with its own account, selected a course (it was a LMS, Learnin…

Have you tried k6 and if so, what do you think? I've found it pretty powerful and it's completely scriptable which opens the doors to a lot of opportunity to do complex tests.

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Post by RandyRanderson »

shawnz wrote: post #7
idoubtit wrote: post #4

JMeter has literally hundreds more features than this. This tool (apart from the non-free licence) seems more similar to `ab` and the dozens other http benchmarking tools (like siege, wrk, httperf, and others I haven't tried), with an added basic GUI. The last time I used JMeter to load test a site, I simulated many users: each thread logged into the site with its own account, selected a course (it was a LMS, Learnin…

Whatever eventually displaces JMeter has got to start somewhere.

Can you even 'replace' an open-source soln with a closed-source one?

If so, there are already many better "replacements" like loadrunner:

https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/loadrunner-alternatives/

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Post by sciurus »

shawnz wrote: post #7
idoubtit wrote: post #4

JMeter has literally hundreds more features than this. This tool (apart from the non-free licence) seems more similar to `ab` and the dozens other http benchmarking tools (like siege, wrk, httperf, and others I haven't tried), with an added basic GUI. The last time I used JMeter to load test a site, I simulated many users: each thread logged into the site with its own account, selected a course (it was a LMS, Learnin…

Whatever eventually displaces JMeter has got to start somewhere.

I think extensible open-source load testing tools like https://k6.io and https://locust.io are already replacing JMeter.
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