Load testing with Locust

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During the recording of this episode, we are in the week of Black Friday. An exciting week for people hunting for bargains. And also for a lot of our colleagues.
What this episode covers
Whether that is from a commercial point of view or an engineering one.

All the eyeballs on our website, bring a lot of traffic. And consequential a lot of load on our systems. In this episode, we focus on one aspect of preparing for a large load: Load Testing. In this episode, we are going to talk about Load Testing with Locust. An open-source load testing tool.

Triggered by our guest's presentation during the spaces summit, we wanted to know more about this and share it with you.

• What is Locust?
• Why did we start using Locust for Load Testing?
• Examples of Load tests and Performance tests performed with this tool
• What did we need to setup for it?
• How to configure your Locust tests
• How to run your tests on Kubernetes
• What were the challenges?
• How does it make use of the cloud benefits like scalability?

Guests

• Leon van Wijk; Full Stack Software Engineer at Craftsmen and engineer in our Logistics Team

Notes

• Distributed load testing with Locust
• Locust presentation at the Spaces Summit
• Performance testing the Chat App