Designing Effective Load Tests for Your Python App - Talk Python to Me Ep.479

You're about to launch your new app or API, or even just a big refactor of your current project. Will it stand up and deliver when you put it into production or when that big promotion goes live? Or will it wither and collapse? How would you know? Well you would test that of course. We have Anthony Shaw back on the podcast to dive into a wide range of tools and techniques for performance and loading testing of web apps.

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Locust is good, but it has one major disadvantage, each thread is rather big and slow. We switched to Grafana K6 which manages 5X connections on the same hardware. The drawback is that you have to write javascript and not python.