I frequently hear people talk about unit tests when they actually mean something else. In some cases, I would think it was pedantic to argue about the specific meaning of a term like unittest, but in this case I think it often works against the Software Developer to use the term incorrectly. Below I provide… Continue reading
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Load Testing with Locust.io
I’ve recently done some load testing using Locust.io. The setup was more complicated than other tools and I didn’t feel like it was well documented on their site. Here’s how I got Locust.io running on two different Linux platforms. Locust.io on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS Naturally, these instructions will work on CentOS too…. Continue reading
Load Testing Alternatives for Large Scale Web Applications
Load testing web applications is a big deal in a day of web scale traffic. There are countless ways to get traffic to a website, and when one of them goes right (like a slashdot or viral content), it can produce an enormous load in a very short time. Building and testing large scale software… Continue reading