Load Testing Skill

Does your service hold up under real traffic? Unit tests say nothing about performance. Load tests validate SLOs before you find out in production.

When to Activate

• Before launching a new service or feature to production
• After major performance-sensitive changes (new query, new algorithm)
• Setting up performance regression tests in CI
• Diagnosing a production performance issue
• Validating database indexes under realistic load
• Establishing SLO thresholds (p95, p99 latency, error rate) as enforceable k6 test gates
• Running soak tests to detect memory leaks or gradual performance degradation over hours of sustained traffic

Test Types