Talk in English - US at Southeast PHP
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/59d21
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Well, today is the day. You've spent the last 4 months working on an API and today is the day it goes live. From unit tests to integration tests, you've put in the work and are confident the system is correct and ready.
But... Are you sure? You haven't tested this under load yet. At what level of traffic will performance begin to degrade? What are the most expensive operations? When this thing breaks, how will it break? And what will break first?
This is where Gatling (https://gatling.io) can help out. In this talk, I'll cover the basic use of this tool and how you can integrate it into a PHP project. From filling out forms to uploading files, we'll cover the basic scenarios that can give you the confidence to deploy and run an app at scale. Additionally, I'll demonstrate how to vary traffic levels and request patterns to approximate actual production usage. Finally, we'll use New Relic to gain performance insights while the test scenario is running
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Great talk with a lot of real world examples. Definitely looking forward to giving this a try.
Very cool examples of a performance testing tool, I would be nervous to try something like this in a new language, but David explained it very well.
I came away from the talk with a directly useful task list to load test my APIs. Exactly what I was looking for. I'd love to see more presentations from David!