Lynette Miles

Load testing is a critical part of the quality assurance process in any business website. Knowing how your website behaves under load, and being sure it will stay up can make the difference between success and failure for your business. Retail websites require this for major events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. News outlets need to be sure that their readers can reach them and they can respond during major news cycles.

Lynette Miles

Introduced in Goose 0.7, Async enables the simulation of considerably more "users" by giving up the CPU when a task is blocked. For example, when a Goose "user" requests a web page, it's blocked until the server responds. Without Async, Goose blocks an entire CPU core while waiting for that response. With Async, Goose makes the request, then gives up the core (ie, sleeps) allowing another "user" to make a request with that same core...

Lynette Miles

Geese in the clouds

Goose, the load testing software created by Tag1 CEO Jeremy Andrews has had a number of improvements since its creation. One of the most significant improvements is the addition of Gaggles. A Gaggle is a distributed load test, made up of one Manager process and one or more Worker processes. The comparable concept in Locust is a Swarm, and it's critical for Locust as Python can only make use of a single core: you have...

Lynette Miles

In our blog, we’ve previously had a Tag1 Team Talk about Goose, by Tag1 CEO Jeremy Andrews. Goose is a Locust-inspired load testing tool In Rust. Goose has been effective in helping Tag1 support its clients by ensuring their websites hold up under stress.

Preston So

Tag1 TeamTalk #016

Research shows that if your application introduces latency of even a few milliseconds, your business revenue can suffer immensely. At Tag1, we often have clients approach us with concerns about high traffic. Load testing and performance tuning often elicit groans from architects and developers more interested in building features, but it is a critical step in the process to ensuring your web application can operate at scale under heavy load. Though other load testing ecosystems...

Jeremy Andrews

Load testing is one of the tools we leverage regularly at Tag1. It can help prevent website outages, stress test code changes, and identify bottlenecks. The ability to run the same test repeatedly gives critical insight into the impact of changes to the code and/or systems. Often -- as part of our engagements with clients -- we will write a load test that can be leveraged and re-used by the client into the future.

Narayan Newton

Turning One Locust Into A Plague
Locust.io is a great tool for applying load in a controlled manner and measuring response. However, historically speaking nobody has really cared about a solo locust. They just aren't that concerning in the singular. Likewise, load applied from a single point to a moderately complicated infrastructure is both easy to block (or rate limit) and also not very representative of a real world situation. (Aside from the people you inevitably end up talking to who...

Narayan Newton

Say Goodbye To Apache JMeter
Apache JMeter and I have a long and complicated relationship. It is definitely a trusted and valuable tool, but I am also quite confident that certain parts of it will make an appearance in my particular circle of hell. Due to this somewhat uncomfortable partnership, I am always interested in new tools for applying load to an infrastructure and monitoring the results. Locust.io is not exactly a new tool, but I have only recently begun...