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    2024

  • 2024-Jan-11
    Entendiendo los sintéticos (Café con Grafana #008)
  • 2023

  • 2023-Dec-01
    How to Get Started with Tempo (Grafana Office Hours #22)
  • 2023-Nov-30
    Repasemos el G-stack (Café con Grafana #005)
  • 2023-Nov-28
    Performance Testing With Nicole van der Hoeven (Quality Bits Podcast)
  • 2023-Nov-24
    How to Use Flow Mode for Grafana Agent (Grafana Office Hours #21)
  • 2023-Nov-23
    Dimensionando el Grafana Suite (Café con Grafana #004)
  • 2023-Nov-17
    Realistic Tests with Testcontainers (Grafana Office Hours #20)
  • 2023-Nov-08
    (ES) Cómo hacer pruebas de carga con Grafana k6 (Café con Grafana #003)
  • 2023-Nov-03
    Combining Frontend and Backend Performance (Grafana Office Hours #18)
  • 2023-Nov-01
    (TL) Ano ang relasyon ng testing at observabilidad?
  • 2023-Oct-30
    K-SIX News v0.47
  • 2023-Oct-27
    Real User Monitoring With Grafana Faro (Grafana Office Hours #17)
  • 2023-Jun-30
    Recording a Performance Test With Grafana Cloud k6 (k6 Office Hours #93)
  • 2023-Jun-16
    Testing Kubernetes Networking With k6 (k6 Office Hours #91)
  • 2023-Jun-09
    How to use k6 for site reliability engineering (k6 Office Hours #90)
  • 2023-May-26
    How Supabase does performance benchmarking using k6 (k6 Office Hours #89)
  • 2023-May-10
    Intersectionality in Tech (Adobo & Avocados #03)
  • 2023-May-03
    Getting started in testing (Adobo & Avocados #02)
  • 2023-Apr-28
    How to Get Core Web Vitals in k6 (k6 Office Hours #86)
  • 2023-Apr-19
    Emergent Load Testing - rules for organized chaos
  • 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-29
    How we got into tech (Adobo & Avocados #01)
  • 2023-Mar-24
    Grafana Cloud k6 (k6 Office Hours #83)
  • 2023-Mar-21
    Introducing Grafana Cloud k6
  • 2023-Mar-17
    Experimental modules in k6 (k6 Office Hours #82)
  • 2023-Feb-24
    How to Do Exploratory Testing for Performance (k6 Office Hours #79)
  • 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-25
    Introduction to Performance Testing
  • 2023-Jan-12
    Guide to Load Testing Websites
  • 2022

  • 2022-Dec-18
    Distributed Load Testing Using Kubernetes With k6
  • 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-Jul-22
    Workload Modeling for Performance Testing (k6 Office Hours #57)
  • 2022-Jul-21
    Creating k6 Scripts With the Browser Recorder and IDE
  • 2022-Jun-01
    How to Be a Gish - API, browser, and chaos testing in one script (ExpoQA 2022)
  • 2022-May-06
    What Is Grafana Mimir? (k6 Office Hours #53)
  • 2022-Apr-29
    API load testing using k6, with Tom Miseur (k6 Office Hours #52)
  • 2022-Apr-22
    End-to-end browser testing using xk6-browser, with Thomas Wikman (k6 Office Hours #51)
  • 2022-Apr-21
    Qué es k6
  • 2022-Apr-12
    How to Run a Load Test With the k6 Cloud Test Builder
  • 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-01
    Building Reliable Systems With k6 (k6 Office Hours #48)
  • 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-11
    Load Testing for DevOps with Victor Farcic (k6 Office Hours #45)
  • 2022-Feb-25
    Postman for load testing using k6, with Tim Haselaars (k6 Office Hours #43)
  • 2022-Feb-18
    How to design a workload model in k6, with the k6 Developer Advocates (k6 Office Hours #42)
  • 2022-Feb-11
    Getting started with using k6 extensions, with Paul Balogh (k6 Office Hours #41)
  • 2022-Feb-04
    Using Executors and Stages in k6 with Théo Crevon (k6 Office Hours #40)
  • 2022-Jan-28
    Señor Performo's Week of Load Testing (k6 Office Hours #39)
  • 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-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-14
    Six Performance Testing Hats
  • 2022-Jan-12
    What Tabletop Games Teach Us About Application Perfomance
  • 2022-Jan-09
    5 Ways to Use Obsidian as a Software Engineer
  • 2022-Jan-08
    Take Notes, Not Tools
  • 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-23
    Performance Objective: Intro to Load Testing With k6 and Grafana
  • 2021-Nov-23
    Everyone Can Contribute: Load Performance Testing With k6
  • 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-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-13
    Kubedim: Microservices testing using k6 for reliability, with Kelvin Zhang (k6 Office Hours #24)
  • 2021-Aug-11
    Monitoring your k6 load test: how to install Grafana and Prometheus on a Kubernetes cluster
  • 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-01
    Schrödinger's Pokémon: Observability for chaotic load testing (New Relic FutureStack)
  • 2021-Jul-19
    A tester's overview of Grafana Labs open-source projects
  • 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-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-05
    Making k6 extensions using xk6, with Iván Szkiba and Mihail Stoykov (k6 Office Hours)
  • 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-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
    k6 Office Hours 05: Observability with Daniel González Lopes
  • 2021-Mar-05
    k6 Office Hours 04: Using Cypress with Marie Drake
  • 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-05
    The first ever k6 Office Hours
  • 2020

  • 2020-Dec-17
    Week of Testing Wrap-up: My thoughts on k6 as a load testing tool
  • 2020-Dec-16
    Cuándo JMeter no alcanza: Pruebas de carga simulando navegadores
  • 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-Jul-04
    Performanceverbeteringen voor de coronalijn: de kracht van angst
  • 2020-Jun-22
    Entrevista con Señor Performo en PerfBytes Español
  • 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-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-Feb-23
    Should I Upgrade to JMeter 4.0? 5 Reasons to Upgrade
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