Nicole van der Hoeven

2023

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 #3)
2023-May-05
Tagging and Linking With AI: Napkin
2023-May-03
Getting started in testing (Adobo & Avocados #2)
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 #1)
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