Nicole van der Hoeven

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    2024

  • 2024-Jan-31
    How to get started in DevRel with Gertrude Westrin (Adobo & Avocados #29)
  • 2024-Jan-26
    How to publish your notes for free with Quartz
  • 2024-Jan-25
    Mental Health as a Superpower with Karen Todd (Adobo & Avocados #28)
  • 2024-Jan-19
    How to do continuous profiling right with Grafana Pyroscope and Ryan Perry, (Grafana Office Hours #27)
  • 2024-Jan-19
    Learning new things in Obsidian: in defense of remembering
  • 2024-Jan-18
    Why People Leave Software Testing, with Maria Kedemo (Adobo & Avocados #27)
  • 2024-Jan-12
    My workflow for making videos with Obsidian
  • 2024-Jan-10
    The Power of Community, with Tara Walton (Adobo & Avocados #26)
  • 2024-Jan-09
    How to Deploy Grafana Beyla on Kubernetes as a Sidecar Container
  • 2024-Jan-05
    Why Not to Make Resolutions in 2024
  • 2024-Jan-05
    Introduction to eBPF With Grafana Beyla (Grafana Office Hours #25)
  • 2023

  • 2023-Dec-27
    Links vs Tags vs Folders: knowledge gardening with Jorge Arango
  • 2023-Dec-20
    Learning about Glue Work and Quiet Quitting (Adobo & Avocados #25)
  • 2023-Dec-15
    DevOps Culture from a Tester's Perspective (Adobo & Avocados #24)
  • 2023-Dec-15
    Note-taking Templates I Use in Obsidian
  • 2023-Dec-08
    My Daily Tech for Productivity
  • 2023-Dec-08
    Getting Started with OpenTelemetry (Grafana Office Hours #23)
  • 2023-Dec-01
    How I Refactor Notes in Obsidian
  • 2023-Dec-01
    How to Get Started with Tempo (Grafana Office Hours #22)
  • 2023-Nov-28
    Performance Testing With Nicole van der Hoeven (Quality Bits Podcast)
  • 2023-Nov-28
    Navigating through Unemployment with Renata Andrade (Adobo & Avocados #22)
  • 2023-Nov-24
    How to Use Flow Mode for Grafana Agent (Grafana Office Hours #21)
  • 2023-Nov-17
    Realistic Tests with Testcontainers (Grafana Office Hours #20)
  • 2023-Nov-15
    Minimalism in Software Testing with Lina Zubyte (Adobo & Avocados #21)
  • 2023-Nov-10
    Load Testing on Kubernetes with k6 Private Load Zones (Grafana Office Hours #19)
  • 2023-Nov-08
    Learning about experience design with Jenna Charlton (Adobo & Avocados #20)
  • 2023-Nov-05
    Creating Characters in TTRPGs (Beyond the Character Sheet #01)
  • 2023-Nov-03
    Combining Frontend and Backend Performance (Grafana Office Hours #18)
  • 2023-Nov-03
    Combining Frontend and Backend Performance With John Hill (Grafana Office Hours #18)
  • 2023-Nov-01
    Becoming an accessibility advocate with Erin Crise (Adobo & Avocados #19)
  • 2023-Oct-30
    K-SIX News v0.47
  • 2023-Oct-27
    Real User Monitoring With Grafana Faro (Grafana Office Hours #17)
  • 2023-Oct-25
    Emergent Load Testing - TestCon Europe 2023
  • 2023-Oct-24
    Inspiring others and fuelling your passion with Jonah Andersson (Adobo & Avocados #18)
  • 2023-Oct-20
    What is Grafana Agent? (Grafana Office Hours #16)
  • 2023-Oct-18
    Having a coaching mindset with Kulas Angeles (Adobo & Avocados #17)
  • 2023-Oct-13
    Agentless Monitoring for Grafana Cloud (Grafana Office Hours #15)
  • 2023-Oct-13
    Agentless Monitoring for Prometheus in Grafana Cloud (Grafana Office Hours #15)
  • 2023-Oct-11
    Investing in yourself with Nicola Lindgren (Adobo & Avocados #16)
  • 2023-Oct-07
    Distributed tracing with Grafana Cloud k6 (Grafana Office Hours #14)
  • 2023-Oct-04
    The Role of AI in Gender Equality with Nicola Martin (Adobo & Avocados #15)
  • 2023-Sep-29
    How to Deploy Grafana on Kubernetes (Grafana Office Hours #13)
  • 2023-Sep-29
    Easiest way to share a note on Obsidian - Obsius Publish plugin
  • 2023-Sep-22
    Modernizing government documents with Govable and Grafana (Grafana Office Hours #12)
  • 2023-Sep-19
    The benefits and dangers of public speaking (Adobo & Avocados #14)
  • 2023-Sep-12
    Winning over imposter syndrome with Sophie Küster (Adobo & Avocados #13)
  • 2023-Sep-08
    Celebrating 100 episodes of k6 Office Hours (k6 Office Hours #100)
  • 2023-Sep-08
    Grafana k6 for WebSockets and infrastructure testing (Grafana Office Hours #11)
  • 2023-Sep-06
    Setting boundaries, time management, and essentialism (Adobo & Avocados #12)
  • 2023-Sep-01
    How to learn Grafana with Grafana Play (Grafana Office Hours #10)
  • 2023-Aug-25
    Getting started with Grafana Loki (Grafana Office Hours #09)
  • 2023-Aug-11
    What's new in k6 browser? (k6 Office Hours #98)
  • 2023-Aug-11
    Observing the Internet of Things (Grafana Office Hours #08)
  • 2023-Aug-07
    Navigating parenthood with Laveena Ramchandani (A&A #11)
  • 2023-Aug-03
    How to get started with Grafana and Docker (Grafana Office Hours #07)
  • 2023-Jul-28
    Making a career and being true to yourself with Lena Pejgan Nyström (Adobo & Avocados #10)
  • 2023-Jul-28
    OpenTelemetry demo app with Grafana, Tempo, Loki, and Prometheus (Grafana Office Hours #06)
  • 2023-Jul-26
    Obsidian properties in YAML frontmatter (v1.4)
  • 2023-Jul-21
    All the Obsidian Core Plugins (Obsidian Tour 2023)
  • 2023-Jul-19
    Why monoculture is problematic for quality with Callum Akehurst-Ryan (Adobo & Avocados #9)
  • 2023-Jul-14
    Distributed tracing for testing with Grafana Tempo and Tracetest (Grafana Office Hours #05)
  • 2023-Jul-14
    Taking notes on podcasts with Snipd, Readwise, and Obsidian
  • 2023-Jul-12
    What does an overloaded system look like for humans? (Adobo & Avocados #08)
  • 2023-Jul-07
    When Productivity Gets Toxic, with Andy Polaine
  • 2023-Jul-07
    Monitor behind a Firewall With Private Data Source Connect (Grafana Office Hours #04)
  • 2023-Jul-06
    Quality Engineering, DevOps, and work-life balance (Adobo & Avocados #07)
  • 2023-Jul-01
    Why Representation Matters (Adobo & Avocados #06)
  • 2023-Jun-30
    Every Single Plugin I Use (Obsidian Tour 2023)
  • 2023-Jun-30
    Recording a Performance Test With Grafana Cloud k6 (k6 Office Hours #93)
  • 2023-Jun-29
    Changes to Grafana Plugins in Grafana 10 (Grafana Office Hours #03)
  • 2023-Jun-23
    From Load Testing to Reliability Testing Tool (k6 Office Hours #92)
  • 2023-Jun-23
    How I Structure My Obsidian Vault (Obsidian Tour 2023)
  • 2023-Jun-23
    Do Appearances Matter in Tech (Adobo & Avocados #05)
  • 2023-Jun-19
    What Is Grafana Scenes? with Torkel Ödegaard (Grafana Office Hours #02)
  • 2023-Jun-16
    Taking Notes for Work With Obsidian
  • 2023-Jun-16
    Testing Kubernetes Networking With k6 (k6 Office Hours #91)
  • 2023-Jun-16
    What's New in Grafana 10? (Grafana Office Hours #01)
  • 2023-Jun-14
    The Lost Art of Taking Good Notes (EuroSTAR 2023)
  • 2023-Jun-09
    How to use k6 for site reliability engineering (k6 Office Hours #90)
  • 2023-Jun-09
    Text Expansion in Obsidian With Espanso
  • 2023-Jun-07
    10 tips for starting (or progressing) a career in tech (Adobo & Avocados #04)
  • 2023-May-26
    How Supabase does performance benchmarking using k6 (k6 Office Hours #89)
  • 2023-May-19
    My Remote Work Setup While Traveling for a Month
  • 2023-May-18
    Load testing and tracing with k6 and Tempo
  • 2023-May-16
    How to Avoid the Most Common Kubernetes Monitoring Mistakes
  • 2023-May-12
    More Than Just Taking Notes: Learning Exhaust
  • 2023-May-10
    Intersectionality in Tech (Adobo & Avocados #03)
  • 2023-May-05
    Tagging and Linking With AI: Napkin
  • 2023-May-03
    Getting started in testing (Adobo & Avocados #02)
  • 2023-Apr-28
    Emergent Note Taking
  • 2023-Apr-28
    How to Get Core Web Vitals in k6 (k6 Office Hours #86)
  • 2023-Apr-20
    Obsidian Bookmarks (new in Obsidian v1.2)
  • 2023-Apr-19
    Emergent Load Testing - rules for organized chaos
  • 2023-Apr-14
    Organizing PDFs in Obsidian
  • 2023-Apr-12
    Lazy GM Note Taking With Notion and Obsidian
  • 2023-Apr-07
    Taking Notes on People in Obsidian
  • 2023-Apr-07
    k6 Javascript Ecosystem (k6 Office Hours #85)
  • 2023-Apr-03
    Frontend vs. backend: How to plan your performance testing strategy
  • 2023-Mar-31
    Taking Notes for RPGs in Obsidian with Andy Polaine
  • 2023-Mar-29
    How we got into tech (Adobo & Avocados #01)
  • 2023-Mar-27
    Taking Notes for Research with Bianca Pereira
  • 2023-Mar-26
    Informed Life Podcast Interview
  • 2023-Mar-24
    Grafana Cloud k6 (k6 Office Hours #83)
  • 2023-Mar-21
    Introducing Grafana Cloud k6
  • 2023-Mar-17
    Randomness in Obsidian With Dice Roller
  • 2023-Mar-17
    Experimental modules in k6 (k6 Office Hours #82)
  • 2023-Mar-12
    The Future of Obsidian with CEO Stephan Ango and Andy Polaine
  • 2023-Mar-03
    Writing a book in Obsidian
  • 2023-Feb-24
    How to Do Exploratory Testing for Performance (k6 Office Hours #79)
  • 2023-Feb-24
    My new favorite Obsidian theme
  • 2023-Feb-03
    My setup in Obsidian for TTRPGs in 2023
  • 2023-Feb-03
    Integrating k6 and Tracetest (k6 Office Hours #77)
  • 2023-Feb-01
    Frontend vs Backend Performance Testing
  • 2023-Jan-27
    How to Organize Testing Scripts in k6 (k6 Office Hours #76)
  • 2023-Jan-27
    AI tools for PKM and Obsidian
  • 2023-Jan-25
    Introduction to Performance Testing
  • 2023-Jan-20
    Top 10 Core Plugins for Obsidian in 2023
  • 2023-Jan-13
    Overview of Obsidian - Obsidian for Everyone course
  • 2023-Jan-12
    Guide to Load Testing Websites
  • 2023-Jan-06
    My Time Management Setup in Obsidian
  • 2022

  • 2022-Dec-30
    Taking Notes From Youtube Videos in Obsidian
  • 2022-Dec-25
    Mastobot: a Mastodon Bot for Readwise and Obsidian
  • 2022-Dec-23
    Visual Atomic Note Taking With Obsidian Excalidraw
  • 2022-Dec-18
    Distributed Load Testing Using Kubernetes With k6
  • 2022-Dec-16
    Reading and Taking Notes on Kindle and Obsidian
  • 2022-Dec-09
    Obsidian Canvas Core Plugin (new in v1.0.0)
  • 2022-Dec-02
    My Tech Bag for Working Remotely
  • 2022-Nov-25
    Making Notes Actually Useful in Obsidian
  • 2022-Nov-18
    Notion-like Content Calendar in Obsidian Projects
  • 2022-Nov-11
    How Many Obsidian Vaults Should You Have?
  • 2022-Nov-07
    Notion Database Views in Obsidian (Live)
  • 2022-Nov-04
    Distributed Tracing With Grafana k6 (k6 Office Hours #70)
  • 2022-Nov-04
    How to Organize Your Notes in Obsidian
  • 2022-Oct-28
    Taking Better Notes From Books: Shortform-Readwise-Obsidian
  • 2022-Oct-28
    All About Load Testing Metrics (k6 Office Hours #69)
  • 2022-Oct-21
    Obsidian for Non-coders
  • 2022-Oct-21
    Assertions in k6 (k6 Office Hours #68)
  • 2022-Oct-15
    How to Take Notes for D&D in Obsidian, with Leah Ferguson
  • 2022-Oct-14
    Load Testing Types and k6 Executors (k6 Office Hours #67)
  • 2022-Oct-13
    Tabs in Obsidian (new in v1.0)
  • 2022-Oct-07
    Real Use Case for Obsidian with Dataview
  • 2022-Oct-07
    All About Web Performance (k6 Office Hours #66)
  • 2022-Sep-30
    What's in my EDC Bag (2022)
  • 2022-Sep-30
    Performance testing for beginners (k6 Office Hours #65)
  • 2022-Sep-23
    The future of k6 (k6 Office Hours #64)
  • 2022-Sep-23
    How I Learn Languages in Obsidian
  • 2022-Sep-16
    Getting started with xk6-browser (k6 Office Hours #63)
  • 2022-Sep-16
    How to Use the Excalibrain Obsidian Plugin
  • 2022-Sep-09
    Load Testing Apache Kafka using k6 (k6 Office Hours #62)
  • 2022-Sep-07
    I can finally tell you about Readwise Reader
  • 2022-Sep-02
    How to Take Notes from a book with Obsidian (The Culture Map)
  • 2022-Sep-02
    Resilience and Chaos Testing with SteadyBit and k6 (k6 Office Hours #61)
  • 2022-Aug-26
    How I Study Using Obsidian
  • 2022-Aug-20
    Live - Visual PKM With Zsolt Viczián
  • 2022-Aug-19
    What is browser testing, with Marie Drake (k6 Office Hours #60)
  • 2022-Aug-18
    How to Make Your Notes Visual in Obsidian
  • 2022-Aug-12
    Observability Trends and Future Best Practices (k6 Office Hours #59)
  • 2022-Aug-12
    How I Learn in Obsidian - Keeping up with tech trends
  • 2022-Aug-05
    Using the Obsidian QuickAdd Plugin
  • 2022-Jul-29
    1 Year Ago We Were Acquired. Here's what happened next. (k6 Office Hours #58)
  • 2022-Jul-29
    How to Do D&D Prep in Obsidian
  • 2022-Jul-22
    Why You Should Move to Another Country
  • 2022-Jul-22
    Workload Modeling for Performance Testing (k6 Office Hours #57)
  • 2022-Jul-21
    Creating k6 Scripts With the Browser Recorder and IDE
  • 2022-Jul-15
    Why Is Everyone Talking About Chaos Engineering? (k6 Office Hours #56)
  • 2022-Jul-15
    Introducing Popout Windows for Obsidian
  • 2022-Jul-08
    How to migrate to Kubernetes, with Carlos Ruiz Lantero (k6 Office Hours #55)
  • 2022-Jul-08
    June 2022 Patreon Q&A
  • 2022-Jul-01
    Regular Reviews With Obsidian Periodic Notes
  • 2022-Jun-24
    How to Use Maps in Obsidian - Leaflet and Kanban
  • 2022-Jun-17
    How to create things with your notes
  • 2022-Jun-08
    DevOps Paradox: Performance Testing With k6
  • 2022-Jun-03
    Visual Map of Content in Obsidian // Excalidraw plugin
  • 2022-Jun-01
    How to Be a Gish - API, browser, and chaos testing in one script (ExpoQA 2022)
  • 2022-May-27
    Presentations as Code - How to use Obsidian Advanced Slides
  • 2022-May-19
    Use It or Lose It - Linking Your Thinking Conference
  • 2022-May-12
    How Real People Process Notes
  • 2022-May-06
    What Is Grafana Mimir? (k6 Office Hours #53)
  • 2022-May-06
    Using the Obsidian Templater Plugin
  • 2022-Apr-29
    API load testing using k6, with Tom Miseur (k6 Office Hours #52)
  • 2022-Apr-29
    Actually Getting Things Done With Obsidian - Checklist plugin
  • 2022-Apr-22
    End-to-end browser testing using xk6-browser, with Thomas Wikman (k6 Office Hours #51)
  • 2022-Apr-20
    Obsidian task management with Dataviewjs, Templates, Daily Notes
  • 2022-Apr-13
    How to Use the Obsidian Dataview Plugin
  • 2022-Apr-12
    How to Run a Load Test With the k6 Cloud Test Builder
  • 2022-Apr-09
    The dev behind the Obsidian TTRPG plugins - Jeremy Valentine
  • 2022-Apr-08
    Load testing results in the k6 Cloud App for Grafana, with Edgar Fisher (k6 Office Hours #49)
  • 2022-Apr-07
    TestOps Ask Me Anything on Devops Toolkit
  • 2022-Apr-06
    Notion vs Obsidian - Databases vs Dataview
  • 2022-Apr-01
    Building Reliable Systems With k6 (k6 Office Hours #48)
  • 2022-Mar-31
    Working in Devrel Chat (with Gift Egwuenu)
  • 2022-Mar-30
    New in Obsidian: Obsidian Callouts (available now)
  • 2022-Mar-25
    How to Analyze Load Testing Results with k6 (k6 Office Hours #47
  • 2022-Mar-23
    How to Process Notes in Obsidian // Readwise Official Obsidian plugin
  • 2022-Mar-19
    Obsidian Dataview, building a second brain, and more about me // Q&A Livestream
  • 2022-Mar-18
    How to Make Kubernetes Clusters Production Ready using Crossplane, with Viktor Farcic (k6 Office Hours #46)
  • 2022-Mar-16
    E-residency Benefits: Why and How to Start a Company in Estonia
  • 2022-Mar-16
    Real Browser Testing With xk6-browser
  • 2022-Mar-11
    Load Testing for DevOps with Victor Farcic (k6 Office Hours #45)
  • 2022-Mar-09
    Why I Chose Obsidian Over Roam Research (as a Roam investor)
  • 2022-Mar-04
    Private Load Zones for Load Testing (k6 Office Hours #44)
  • 2022-Mar-02
    Basics of Chaos Engineering for Testers
  • 2022-Feb-25
    Postman for load testing using k6, with Tim Haselaars (k6 Office Hours #43)
  • 2022-Feb-23
    Top 10 Obsidian Plugins I Can't Do Without
  • 2022-Feb-18
    How to design a workload model in k6, with the k6 Developer Advocates (k6 Office Hours #42)
  • 2022-Feb-16
    How to get started with Obsidian in 2022 - from scratch
  • 2022-Feb-11
    Getting started with using k6 extensions, with Paul Balogh (k6 Office Hours #41)
  • 2022-Feb-10
    Foreigners Try Latvian Food (Lucky Dippers)
  • 2022-Feb-10
    In search of the best Pokémon: Browser automation and load testing in one script with k6 (Automation Guild 2022)
  • 2022-Feb-09
    Reclaim.ai Review - Smart calendar blocking for the productive engineer
  • 2022-Feb-04
    Using Executors and Stages in k6 with Théo Crevon (k6 Office Hours #40)
  • 2022-Feb-03
    Pizza and Antiquing in Tallinn Estonia (Lucky Dippers)
  • 2022-Feb-02
    Creating a D&D DM's Brain Attic With Obsidian
  • 2022-Feb-01
    Realistic Calendar Blocking for the Agile Knowledge Worker
  • 2022-Jan-31
    5 Things the Obsidian Templater Plugin Can Do That Templates Can't
  • 2022-Jan-29
    10 Mandatory Obsidian Plugins for Every Software Engineer
  • 2022-Jan-28
    Señor Performo's Week of Load Testing (k6 Office Hours #39)
  • 2022-Jan-27
    Old Town Walking Tour of Tallinn Estonia (Lucky Dippers)
  • 2022-Jan-26
    Why I'm Leaving the Netherlands
  • 2022-Jan-25
    Why All Roads Lead to Testing
  • 2022-Jan-24
    How to Actually Remember What You Learn, for Engineers with Long Reading Lists
  • 2022-Jan-23
    My Workflow for Making Tech and Travel Videos Online
  • 2022-Jan-22
    How to Do What Kind of Testing When: Testing Types by Scope
  • 2022-Jan-21
    Canonical Observability with Simon Aronsson and Michele Mancioppi (k6 Office Hours #38)
  • 2022-Jan-20
    First Look at Estonia | Getting to Tallinn (Lucky Dippers)
  • 2022-Jan-19
    An Overview of Software Testing
  • 2022-Jan-18
    How to Use Executors in k6: Adapting Load Test Workload Models to Production
  • 2022-Jan-17
    Testing tool cheat sheet for load testers who don't just care about numbers
  • 2022-Jan-16
    How to use Dataview and Templater to run JavaScript in Obsidian for automating task management
  • 2022-Jan-15
    Building a DM's Brain Attic
  • 2022-Jan-14
    Six Performance Testing Hats
  • 2022-Jan-13
    Financial Independence Isn't Just for Old People
  • 2022-Jan-12
    How to Set Goals in Obsidian for 2022
  • 2022-Jan-12
    What Tabletop Games Teach Us About Application Perfomance
  • 2022-Jan-11
    The Tester's Toolbox Is Flawed
  • 2022-Jan-10
    Obsidian for the Uninitiated
  • 2022-Jan-09
    5 Ways to Use Obsidian as a Software Engineer
  • 2022-Jan-08
    Take Notes, Not Tools
  • 2021

  • 2021-Dec-20
    Top 10 Last Minute Tech Gifts (2021)
  • 2021-Dec-17
    How Eurofunk uses k6 for load testing emergency services (k6 Office Hours #37)
  • 2021-Dec-09
    Load Tester Reacts to Pokemon Go Scales for 166m Users
  • 2021-Dec-03
    What's new with k6 Cloud, with front-end lead Simon Legander (k6 Office Hours #36)
  • 2021-Nov-25
    Creating a Content Calendar in Obsidian
  • 2021-Nov-23
    Performance Objective: Intro to Load Testing With k6 and Grafana
  • 2021-Nov-23
    Everyone Can Contribute: Load Performance Testing With k6
  • 2021-Nov-17
    How I Use Obsidian for Work as a Software Developer Advocate
  • 2021-Nov-13
    How I use Obsidian to run and play D&D online
  • 2021-Nov-12
    Browser testing and API load testing in the same script with k6 (k6 Office Hours #35)
  • 2021-Nov-05
    k6 load testing on Kubernetes using the k6 Operator, with Hans Knecht (k6 Office Hours #34)
  • 2021-Nov-03
    Work week in the life of a Developer Advocate
  • 2021-Oct-29
    Common performance testing problems and fears (k6 Office Hours #33)
  • 2021-Oct-19
    Site Reliability Engineering and performance testing with Stephen Townshend (k6 Office Hours #32)
  • 2021-Oct-19
    How to install and use the k6 Cloud Grafana data source plugin
  • 2021-Oct-15
    Load testing with k6 for beginners, with İnanç Gümüş and Viktor Mihajlović (k6 Office Hours #31)
  • 2021-Oct-14
    Conf42 podcast: in the k6 Universe
  • 2021-Oct-13
    How to make load testing scripts realistic
  • 2021-Oct-12
    Basics of load testing with k6 and Grafana in 20 minutes
  • 2021-Oct-09
    TTRPG Obsidian Showcase
  • 2021-Oct-08
    SLOs in performance testing, with Leandro Melendez aka Señor Performo (k6 Office Hours #30)
  • 2021-Oct-06
    Testing in Public: How to plan a load test (practical example) - Wyrmwood Gaming
  • 2021-Oct-05
    Testing With k6 + Grafana: Better Together (Grafana virtual meetup EMEA)
  • 2021-Oct-01
    How to use k6 Cloud - a k6 load testing tutorial with Bill Rainaud (k6 Office Hours #29)
  • 2021-Sep-30
    Non-Lazy DMs use Obsidian for D&D
  • 2021-Sep-17
    How to load test a GraphQL API built with Hasura using k6 (k6 Office Hours #28)
  • 2021-Sep-16
    Intro to Load Testing With k6 and Grafana (webinar)
  • 2021-Sep-15
    Schrödinger's Pokémon: k6 and Grafana edition
  • 2021-Sep-10
    How Gitlab uses k6 for load testing, with Grant Young (k6 Office Hours #27)
  • 2021-Aug-27
    How to do continuous performance testing, with Lee Barnes (k6 Office Hours #26)
  • 2021-Aug-20
    How to debug k6 load testing scripts with Tom Miseur (k6 Office Hours #25)
  • 2021-Aug-16
    How to import Shortform highlights to Obsidian via Readwise
  • 2021-Aug-13
    Kubedim: Microservices testing using k6 for reliability, with Kelvin Zhang (k6 Office Hours #24)
  • 2021-Aug-13
    Meet the Grafana Labs team: Nicole Van Der Hoeven, Developer Advocate at k6
  • 2021-Aug-12
    Grotten Sint Pietersberg Maastricht (LuckyDippers)
  • 2021-Aug-11
    Monitoring your k6 load test: how to install Grafana and Prometheus on a Kubernetes cluster
  • 2021-Aug-10
    The easiest way to sync Kindle highlights to Obsidian: Readwise to Obsidian Redux
  • 2021-Aug-09
    How I use Obsidian for D&D - Player's Edition
  • 2021-Aug-07
    Realistic load testing
  • 2021-Aug-06
    How we work at k6 - building software & working remotely with CTO Pawel Suwala (k6 Office Hours #23)
  • 2021-Aug-06
    Balkan Bites free food tour with Bulgarian food | Sofia, Bulgaria (Lucky Dippers)
  • 2021-Aug-01
    Schrödinger's Pokémon: Observability for chaotic load testing (New Relic FutureStack)
  • 2021-Jul-30
    Free walking tour in Sofia, Bulgaria (LuckyDippers)
  • 2021-Jul-19
    A tester's overview of Grafana Labs open-source projects
  • 2021-Jul-16
    Shopping at Bicester Village and welcome my niece to her new home | London, England (Lucky Dippers)
  • 2021-Jul-16
    How to run distributed load tests with k6 Operator (k6 Office Hours #21)
  • 2021-Jul-12
    How to add performance testing to CI/CD pipelines using k6 and GitHub Actions
  • 2021-Jul-12
    Gear I Use
  • 2021-Jul-12
    My WFH desk and office setup
  • 2021-Jul-09
    Load testing and Azure DevOps with José Luis Latorre Millas (k6 Office Hours #20)
  • 2021-Jul-02
    Acquisition talk with CEOs Raj Dutt (Grafana) and Robin Gustafsson (k6) (k6 Office Hours #19)
  • 2021-Jun-30
    What you need to know about Grafana Labs's acquisition of k6
  • 2021-Jun-25
    How to use k6 to benchmark hosting providers with Kevin Ohashi (k6 Office Hours #18)
  • 2021-Jun-18
    k6 is part of Grafana Labs! AMA with CEO Robin Gustafsson (k6 Office Hours #17)
  • 2021-Jun-11
    Accessibility and open source support program with Floor Drees (k6 Office Hours #16)
  • 2021-Jun-09
    Convergence of Code and Speech
  • 2021-Jun-05
    Making k6 extensions using xk6, with Iván Szkiba and Mihail Stoykov (k6 Office Hours)
  • 2021-Jun-02
    Downloading files uploaded to Roam Research for use with Obsidian
  • 2021-Jun-01
    What Is Load Testing? - A real-world explanation
  • 2021-May-31
    Interview on Performance Time Podcast
  • 2021-May-28
    Application Performance Monitoring using Netdata and k6, with Odysseas Lamtzidis (k6 Office Hours)
  • 2021-May-24
    End-to-End Guide for Load Testing
  • 2021-May-18
    How I Use Obsidian at Work
  • 2021-May-14
    Learning how to use k6 live with Nočnica Fee from New Relic (k6 Office Hours)
  • 2021-May-11
    Analyzing load testing results in k6 Cloud
  • 2021-May-07
    Performance testing tool feature requests (k6 Office Hours)
  • 2021-May-04
    Using the k6 Cloud interface
  • 2021-Apr-30
    How to get started with chaos engineering (k6 Office Hours)
  • 2021-Apr-23
    Shift-left testing and creating a culture of quality with Simon Prior (k6 Office Hours)
  • 2021-Apr-16
    The future of load testing with k6, with k6 CEO Robin Gustafsson (k6 Office Hours)
  • 2021-Apr-09
    Testing Kubernetes and infrastructure as code with Sid Palas (k6 Office Hours)
  • 2021-Mar-26
    Using CircleCI and environment variables with k6 (k6 Office Hours)
  • 2021-Mar-23
    Performance Testing with k6 and Cypress (Ministry of Testing)
  • 2021-Mar-19
    Performance testing vs. load testing with Señor Performo and Pepe Cano (k6 Office Hours)
  • 2021-Mar-18
    Load Tests as Code: An introduction to k6
  • 2021-Mar-16
    Testing Our Performance Test Tools
  • 2021-Mar-12
    Lucky Dippers 103: Sleeping in the Isle of Skye | Portree, Scotland
  • 2021-Mar-12
    k6 Office Hours 05: Observability with Daniel González Lopes
  • 2021-Mar-05
    k6 Office Hours 04: Using Cypress with Marie Drake
  • 2021-Mar-02
    Presentation Slides as Code
  • 2021-Feb-26
    k6 Office Hours 03: Chaos Engineering with Daniel González Lopes
  • 2021-Feb-19
    k6 Office Hours 02: Observability with New Relic
  • 2021-Feb-11
    The 503 Podcast
  • 2021-Feb-06
    Readwise to Obsidian
  • 2021-Feb-05
    The first ever k6 Office Hours
  • 2021-Jan-29
    Comparing k6 and JMeter for load testing
  • 2021-Jan-26
    Python for Everybody Specialization
  • 2020

  • 2020-Dec-17
    Week of Testing Wrap-up: My thoughts on k6 as a load testing tool
  • 2020-Dec-15
    Taking Notes on a Video: my YiNote to Roam Research Workflow
  • 2020-Dec-14
    How I use Roam Research for D&D: Session Notes
  • 2020-Nov-28
    Week of Testing: Day 5 - The thing about learning in public
  • 2020-Nov-27
    Week of Testing: Day 4 - Load profiles on k6
  • 2020-Nov-26
    Week of Testing: Day 3 - Running a load test locally using k6
  • 2020-Nov-25
    Week of Testing: Day 2 - Comparing tests against a baseline
  • 2020-Nov-24
    Week of Testing: Day 1 - Running a load test on k6
  • 2020-Nov-23
    Week of Testing: Intro
  • 2020-Oct-07
    How to Become a Load Tester
  • 2020-Sep-24
    Lifting the lid on performance testing
  • 2020-Sep-21
    How to Write a Load Test Plan
  • 2020-Aug-18
    Pros and Cons of API load testing
  • 2020-Aug-13
    Performance testing the Dutch coronavirus hotline
  • 2020-Aug-06
    Ask a Flooder 20: How can fear affect application performance?
  • 2020-Jul-22
    Ask a Flooder 18: How do I load test video streaming with JMeter?
  • 2020-Jul-22
    Performance Testing FOMO
  • 2020-Jun-18
    Ask a Flooder 17: How do I use unique test data on Element?
  • 2020-Jun-09
    Ask a Flooder 16: How do I use test data with Element?
  • 2020-Jun-02
    Hybrid load testing: the best of testing using protocols and real browsers
  • 2020-May-28
    Load testing on the Google Cloud Platform
  • 2020-May-12
    Ask a Flooder 15: How do I install Element?
  • 2020-May-05
    Innovation in Isolation
  • 2020-Apr-30
    On-premise load testing advantages and disadvantages
  • 2020-Apr-28
    Ask a Flooder 13: How do you do mobile load testing?
  • 2020-Apr-23
    Browser-based load testing in 2020
  • 2020-Apr-21
    Ask a Flooder 12: Puppeteer vs Selenium: which one is better for load testing?
  • 2020-Apr-14
    Ask a Flooder 11: What are the best JMeter plugins?
  • 2020-Apr-07
    Introducing Flood Agent: standalone infrastructure for load testing
  • 2020-Apr-06
    Ask a Flooder 10: What is the difference between load testing and stress testing?
  • 2020-Mar-31
    Ask a Flooder 09: What are the best tools for load testing?
  • 2020-Mar-26
    Ask a Flooder 08: Why is concurrent users an ambiguous measure of throughput?
  • 2020-Mar-24
    Ask a Flooder 07: What is the difference between performance testing and load testing?
  • 2020-Mar-19
    Ask a Flooder 06: How to record traffic from a mobile app with JMeter
  • 2020-Mar-17
    Ask a Flooder 05: How do I get started with Flood Element?
  • 2020-Mar-11
    Ask a Flooder 04: Why would your load testing tool report higher response times than you expect?
  • 2020-Mar-09
    FOMO and performance testing: Why Robinhood went down
  • 2020-Mar-06
    Load Testing Lessons from the Iowa Caucus
  • 2020-Feb-24
    How AirTasker uses Ruby JMeter and Flood for their load testing
  • 2020-Feb-21
    Mobile Load Testing on the Cloud
  • 2019

  • 2019-Sep-26
    Load Testing Tutorial: Server Monitoring
  • 2019-Jun-19
    Start with Why: How to Write Requirements for API Load Testing
  • 2019-Apr-03
    TestCon Moscow 2019: Dismantling Cognitive Biases
  • 2018

  • 2018-Dec-20
    Performance Testing Interview Questions, Part 3: LoadRunner
  • 2018-Dec-20
    Performance Testing Interview Questions, Part 2: JMeter
  • 2018-Dec-20
    Performance Testing Interview Questions, Part 1: General
  • 2018-Nov-23
    Tips and Tricks for Using Flood Element
  • 2018-Nov-08
    Prepare for Viral Videos With Flood Element
  • 2018-Mar-28
    Manufactured Chaos: How Netflix Does Performance Testing
  • 2018-Feb-24
    Why AirBNB Plus Could Make or Break AirBNB
  • 2018-Feb-23
    Should I Upgrade to JMeter 4.0? 5 Reasons to Upgrade
  • 2018-Feb-22
    How I Became Financially Independent in 5 Years
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