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Stormforger – Cloud-based Load Testing as a Service

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Re: Stormforger – Cloud-based Load Testing as a Service

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I have no idea, why this ended up here, but if you are interested in some technical details what SF does: http://blog.stormforger.com/2014/05/27/load-testing-an-inter...

Sounds useful for doing end-to-end from a cloud provider to another cloud provider, but there's more lessons to learn when you have 20 different ISPs and a couple dozen different clients sending you traffic in different ways.

For example, for free services without customer support, usually you don't notice the bugs from all these different devices trying to access your service under load. Once you start charging and provide support, suddenly people are calling you with all kinds of edge cases that affect a minority of users, and you have to invest time in tracking them down or refund the money (which is a bad idea since that builds a reputation that you'd rather dump customers than help them).

Re: Stormforger – Cloud-based Load Testing as a Service

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Load testing as a service- thats a brilliant idea!

But why tie yourself to Ruby? (My initial impression is "gross!", but I can't say I'm much of a language purist as I spend most of my time in JS)

Would services like Stripe, Mailgun and Twilio have succeeded if they had forced their customers to use a Ruby DSL?

Re: Stormforger – Cloud-based Load Testing as a Service

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Load testing as a service- thats a brilliant idea! But why tie yourself to Ruby? (My initial impression is "gross!", but I can't say I'm much of a language purist as I spend most of my time in JS) Would services like Stripe, Mailgun and Twilio have succeeded if they had forced their customers to use a Ruby DSL?

I saw basti's talk on stormforger at last month's interactive cologne – and I think he switched to JavaScript for the test definitions. Maybe the website is a bit outdated. :)
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