Performance Testing

Purpose

Find out where a system breaks, and why, before production finds out for you. A load test that reports "we handled 1,000 requests per second" without stating the latency, the error rate, and where the bottleneck was tells you nothing useful.

When to Use

• Before a known traffic event: a launch, a campaign, a migration.
• Establishing a capacity baseline.
• Verifying that a performance fix worked.
• Finding the breaking point of a new service.

Capabilities