testing.md

testing

traffic (load) test

types

• Repetitive load generation
• Simulated traffic patterns
• Real traffic

Before running test good to know

• Average throughput in requests per second
• Peak throughput (What is the most traffic that you get over a certain period?)
• Throughput distribution by API endpoint (Do you have any endpoint that gets substantially more traffic than any others?)
• Throughput distribution by users (A few generate most traffic, or is it more evenly distributed?)

Tools for testing

• https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta

sources:

• how-to-load-test-and-tune-performance-on-your-api-part-i