Blogs & Articles

• Squid game: how we load-tested Ably’s Control API - 2022

Tools

• ably-boomer - Ably load generator for Locust, based on the boomer library.
• ably-locust - A JavaScript load generator for Locust.

Blogs & Articles

• Load Testing with Impulse at Airbnb - 2025
• Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming - 2023
• Measuring Web Performance at Airbnb - 2021

Blogs & Articles

• How Airtasker uses Ruby JMeter and Flood for their load testing - 2020

Talks

• How much pressure can your app handle - Performance testing with Ruby - Nancy Cai @ RubyConf 2020

Talks

• UI, Load and Performance testing at Amazon - Leo Zhadanovsky, Dave Mozealous @ AWS re:Invent 2014
• Best Practices for Benchmarking and Performance Analysis in the Cloud - Robert Barnes @ AWS re:Invent 2013
• Large Scale Load Testing Amazon.com's Traffic on AWS - Carlos Arguelles @ AWS re:Invent 2013

Blogs & Articles

• Performance and scale testing
• Jira Performance Testing - Available Tools

Tools

• Jira Performance Tests (JPT)
• Atlassian Performance Testing Framework
• Atlassian Data Center App Performance Toolkit

Blogs & Articles

• Scaling Bedrock video delivery to 50 million users - 2021
• Benchmarking WebSockets with NodeJs - 2013

Talks

• Let’s load test M6+ to prepare for Euro 2024! - Paul-Henri Pillet, Benoit Colin @ Devoxx France 2025

Tools

• websocket-bench - Node.js tool to benchmark Socket.IO and Faye websocket servers.

Blogs & Articles

• Load Testing WebSockets - 2017

Blogs & Articles

• Performance Testing of Event-Driven Microservices - 2017

Tools

• Load Testing Stack - A collection of best practices, workflows, scripts and scenarios used for load and performance testing.

Blogs & Articles

• How to receive a million packets per second - 2015
• Optimizing Your Linux Stack for Maximum Mobile Web Performance - 2012

Blogs & Articles

• Running Load Testing at scale on shoestring budget - 2020

Talks

• Ducktape: Keeping System Testing Simple in a Distributed World - Ian McDonald @ Current 2022

Tools

• ducktape - Distributed system integration and performance testing library.

Blogs & Articles

• Automated website performance testing with GitHub Actions, k6 and Cloudflare Workers - 2021

Blogs & Articles

• Building Pubsub for 50M concurrent socket connections - 2019
• "Millons scale" simulations - 2018

Talks

• Real-time messaging service at Hotstar - Piyush Gupta @ RootConf 2020
• Scaling Hotstar.com for 25 million concurrent viewers - Gaurav Kamboj @ AWS re:Invent 2019

Blogs & Articles

• How we fixed a Node.js memory leak by using ShadowReader to replay production traffic into QA - 2018

Talks

• ShadowReader - Serverless load tests for replaying production traffic - Yuki Sawa @ SCaLE 17x 2019

Tools

• ShadowReader - Serverless load testing tool for replaying website traffic by collecting traffic patterns from access logs, powered by AWS Lambda, S3 and ELB.

Blogs & Articles

• How we perform continuous performance testing on Enterprise Search - 2022

Talks

• Seven Golden Rules for Benchmarking Elasticsearch - Daniel Mitterdorfer @ JDK IO 2018
• Benchmarking Elasticsearch with Rally - Daniel Mitterdorfer @ Search Meetup Munich 2016

Tools

• Rally - Macrobenchmarking framework for Elasticsearch.

Blogs & Articles

• Distributed Load Testing with K6 (K6 + K8s + Argo Workflows) - 2022

Blogs & Articles

• Real-time stress: AnyCable, k6, WebSockets, and Yabeda - 2021

Tools

• websocket-bench - CLI interface for benchmarking WebSocket servers.

Blogs & Articles

• Load testing microservices and identifying scalability issues — Engineering Fitness - 2019

Blogs & Articles

• Turning RTSP into WebRTC: how many cameras will the server withstand? - 2021
• Load test of WebRTC recording on AWS - 2021
• WebRTC face to face video chat. Load test - 2021
• Load testing for WebRTC mixer - 2021
• Using a headless browser for WebRTC load tests - 2021
• Choosing a server for 1000 WebRTC streams - 2021

Talks

• Load testing with F1 - Adelina Simion & Andy Kuszyk @ Conf42 Golang 2022

Tools

• f1 - A flexible load testing framework using the Go language for test scenarios.

Blogs & Articles

• The next step in performance testing? The GitLab Environment Toolkit - 2021
• How our QA team leverages GitLab’s performance testing tool (and you can too) - 2020

Tools

• GitLab Performance Tool (GPT)
• GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET)

Blogs & Articles

• Elevating Tech Reliability at Scale: How We Build Dependable Daily Performance Testing Platform - 2023
• Unleashing Testing at Scale: How GovTech Edu Built a 200K RPS Load Testing Platform - 2023

Blogs & Articles

• How we use the k6 load-testing tool for developing Grafana - 2021

Tools

• The Open Source Load Testing Stack

Blogs & Articles

• Kangal, user-friendly load testing tool - 2020

Tools

• Kangal (Kubernetes and Go Automatic Loader)

Blogs & Articles

• How to benchmark a Kafka consumer that makes async HTTP requests - 2019
• Load Testing using Tsung - 2014

Blogs & Articles

• How We Load Test Argo CD at Scale: 1000 vClusters with GitOps on Kubernetes - 2025
• Performance testing Kubernetes workloads - 2024

Talks

• Performance testing Kubernetes workloads - Stephan Schwarz @ KubeFM

Blogs & Articles

• Eliminating toil with fully automated load testing - 2019
• TrafficShift: Load Testing at Scale - 2017

Talks

• Testing in production at LinkedIn - Szczepan Faber @ Devoxx Poland 2018

Blogs & Articles

• Load testing in production with Grafana Loki, Kubernetes and Golang - 2022

Tools

• ripley - HTTP traffic replay tool at multiples of the original rate.

Blogs & Articles

• SimulatedRides: How Lyft uses load testing to ensure reliable service during peak events - 2023

Blogs & Articles

• Improving performance (and more) through load testing - 2020
• Mattermost recipe: Using Google Lighthouse and ChatOps for website auditing and performance tracking - 2020
• Performance at Scale with Mattermost - 2018

Blogs & Articles

• Scaling for Sale: Automating JMeter Distributed Load Testing - 2022

Talks

• Load Testing of SIP and WebRTC Infrastructures - Lorenzo Miniero @ Kamailio World 2017
• Jattack WebRTC Load Testing tool - Simon Romano @ IIT RTC Conference 2016

Blogs & Articles

• Benchmarking Automation to Maintain Search Response Performance - 2022

Blogs & Articles

• Managing hundreds of servers for load testing: autoscaling, custom monitoring, DevOps culture - 2020
• Reliable load testing with regards to unexpected nuances - 2020

Blogs & Articles

• How we load tested our bank before our £20 million crowdfunding round - 2019

Talks

• Scaling for the Known Unknown - Suhail Patel @ QCon London 2019

Blogs & Articles

• Load Testing at Mozilla - 2017

Talks

• Load testing web services at Mozilla with Molotov - Tarek Ziade @ FOSDEM 2018

Tools

• Feuerwerk - A tool designed to run load tests in Docker containers using Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Raptor - A performance testing framework for running browser pageload and browser benchmark tests.

Blogs & Articles

• Fixing Performance Regressions Before they Happen - 2022
• Manufactured Chaos: How Netflix Does Performance Testing - 2018
• Performance Under Load - 2018
• A Netflix Web Performance Case Study - 2018
• Load Testing at Netflix: Virtual Interview with Coburn Watson - 2014
• JMeter Plugin for Cassandra - 2012

Talks

• How Netflix Tunes Amazon EC2 Instances for Performance - Brendan Gregg @ AWS re:Invent 2017
• Honest Performance Testing with NDBench - Vinay Chella @ Cassandra Summit 2016
• Performance Tuning Amazon EC2 Instances - Brendan Gregg @ AWS re:Invent 2014

Tools

• Chaos Monkey - A resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.
• NDBench - Netflix Data Benchmark, a pluggable cloud-enabled benchmarking tool that can be used across any data store system.

Blogs & Articles

• Comparing gRPC performance across different technologies - 2021

Talks

• Hold My Beer - Load Testing. In Production. On Autopilot - Slava Antonenko @ USENIX SREcon 2023 APAC

Blogs & Articles

• Pinterest Druid Holiday Load Testing - 2021
• Distributed tracing at Pinterest with new open source tools - 2017

Talks

• Evolution of Observability Tools at Pinterest - Naoman Abbas @ USENIX SREcon 2019

Tools

• Bender - An easy-to-use library for creating load testing applications.
• JBender - A port of Bender to the JVM platform with Quasar lightweight threads (fibers) and channels.

Blogs & Articles

• Redis Labs Performance Testing with Live Traffic - 2014
• memtier_benchmark: A High-Throughput Benchmarking Tool for Redis & Memcached - 2013

Talks

• End-To-End Performance Testing, Profiling, and Analysis at Redis - Filipe Oliveira @ P99 CONF 2022
• How to benchmark Redis - Or Shwartz, Filipe Oliveira @ RedisConf 2021

Tools

• memtier_benchmark - NoSQL Redis and Memcache traffic generation and benchmarking tool.
• redis-benchmark-go - Redis benchmark utility in Go.

Blogs & Articles

• Scalability and Load Testing for Valorant - 2020

Blogs & Articles

• Scaling Confidently with the Load and Fault Team - 2021

Blogs & Articles

• How to Scale Test on Salesforce - 2021
• The Importance of Data Quality & Quantity for Performance and Scale Testing - 2021
• How to Continuously Profile Tens of Thousands of Production Servers - 2020
• Performance Testing on the Lightning Platform - 2020
• Introduction to Performance Testing - 2020

Blogs & Articles

• Resiliency Planning for High-Traffic Events - 2020
• Capacity Planning at Scale - 2020
• Pummelling the Platform–Performance Testing Shopify - 2020

Tools

• Genghis - An in-house load generation tool using Lua VM in Go as core execution engine.

Blogs & Articles

• Continuous Load Testing: Building a culture of performance with Koi Pond - 2022
• Load Testing with Koi Pond: How Slack models and tests with incredibly large groups of users - 2021
• Preparing for Huge Waves of Traffic via Load Testing - 2019

Talks

• Better Integration Tests for Performance Monitoring - Maude Lemaire @ Strange Loop Conference 2019
• Mobile performance testing at Slack. How to Build a Performance Test Pipeline from Scratch - Valera Zakharov @ DevFest Ukraine 2018

Blogs & Articles

• Load Testing for 2022 Wrapped - 2023

Tools

• Lighthouse Audit Service - A service meant to help you run, schedule, store, and monitor Lighthouse reports over time.

Blogs & Articles

• Supavisor: Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections - 2023

Talks

• How Supabase does performance benchmarking using k6 - Egor Romanov @ k6 Office Hours 2023

Tools

• supabench - Platform to run and keep the history of benchmark runs.

Blogs & Articles

• A Goose in the Clouds: Load Testing at Scale - 2021
• Goose Attack: A Locust-inspired Load Testing Tool in Rust - 2020

Tools

• gander - Pre-configured OpenTelemetry stack with Grafana Tempo / Prometheus for performance testing.
• goose - A Rust load testing tool inspired by Locust.

Blogs & Articles

• Load Testing a Service with ~20,000 Requests per Second with Locust, Helm, and Kustomize - 2022

Talks

• Testing Systems at Scale @Twitter - James Waldrop @ GTAC 2013

Tools

• iago/iago2 - A load generator, built for engineers.
• rpc-perf - A tool for benchmarking RPC services.

Blogs & Articles

• Introducing Shadower: A Minimalistic Load Testing Tool - 2022
• Introducing Ballast: An Adaptive Load Test Framework - 2022
• Introducing QALM, Uber’s QoS Load Management Framework - 2018
• Reliability at Scale: Engineering an Uneventful New Year's Eve - 2017

Talks

• Testing in Production at Scale - Amit Gud @ USENIX SREcon 2019

Blogs & Articles

• Monitoring benchmark: how to generate 100 million samples/s of production-like data - 2023
• Grafana Mimir and VictoriaMetrics: performance tests - 2022
• Benchmarking Prometheus-compatible time series databases - 2022

Talks

• VictoriaMetrics: scaling to 100 million metrics per second - Aliaksandr Valialkin @ OSMC 2022

Tools

• prometheus-benchmark - Benchmark for Prometheus-compatible systems.

Blogs & Articles

• Performance Testing a data pipeline at scale - 2020
• Overcoming the Challenges of Performance Testing Single-page Apps - 2015

Blogs & Articles

• Simulating random spikes in traffic with low cost testing infrastructure - 2022

Blogs & Articles

• How We Improved Website Performance by Evolving Our Infrastructure - 2021

Talks

• Testing for Performance - Dan Shappir @ Wix Engineering Tech Talks 2019
• Improving Load Time for 100 Million Websites - Dan Shappir @ Wix Engineering Tech Talks 2019

Blogs & Articles

• Building an end-to-end load test automation system on top of Kubernetes - 2021
• How Zalando prepares for Cyber Week - 2020
• End-to-end load testing Zalando's production website - 2019
• End-to-end latency challenges for microservices - 2016

Talks

• Load Testing in the Microservices World - Arjun Naik @ LeaseWeb Tech Summit Berlin 2016

Tools

• docker-locust - A ready and easy-to-use version of locust which also contains additional/useful features that are required.
• transformer - A command-line tool and Python library to transform/convert web browser sessions (HAR files) into locust load testing scenarios (locustfile).
• typhoon - A stress and load testing tool for distributed systems that simulates traffic from a test cluster toward a system-under-test and visualizes infrastructure-, protocol- and application-related latencies.
• zelt - Zalando End-to-end Load Tester, a command-line tool for orchestrating the deployment of locust in Kubernetes.

Blogs & Articles

• Measuring Web Page Performance at Zoopla - 2021

Blogs & Articles

• Distributed load testing with Kubernetes and Predator - 2020
• Optimizing Node.js Performance in Microservice Architecture - 2019
• The Rise of Predator - 2019

Tools

• Predator - A distributed open-source platform for load testing APIs using artillery as load testing engine.