What tools and services have you used and for what use cases? How did you monitor you server and find the bugs and bottlenecks?
Ask HN: What do you use for load testing an API?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you use for load testing an API?
#2For ongoing monitoring/testing, I recommend our tools (see profile). Though I'm a little biased.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use for load testing an API?
#3loader.io For ongoing monitoring/testing, I recommend our tools (see profile). Though I'm a little biased.
cheers!
Re: Ask HN: What do you use for load testing an API?
#4Re: Ask HN: What do you use for load testing an API?
#5It's very simple little java program and nicely tailored to our particular use cases which makes using it very easy. I am not typically a proponent for "roll your own" but in this case, I feel we got quite a bit of ROI from writing very little code.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use for load testing an API?
#6We ended up writing out own little load test suite since we wanted to accurately represent a concurrent load of different user profiles. Each user profile has a different set of functions and rate of accessing the system which we had a difficult time replicating in JMeter. It's very simple little java program and nicely tailored to our particular use cases which makes using it very easy. I am not typically a proponen…
We wrote the client logic in a straightforward imperative way, and then just spawned off thousands of green threads, measured times, and aggregated the results.