Performance Testing on Nicole van der Hoeven

What does an overloaded system look like for humans? (Adobo & Avocados #08)

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:13:41 +0200

My friend Marie Cruz and I talk about burnout from a more technical point of view. We discuss how burnout is similar to an overloaded system (and how it isn’t), and we draw comparisons on how to make an overloaded system more resilient and recover from burnout.

From Load Testing to Reliability Testing Tool (k6 Office Hours #92)

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:43:31 +0100

In this k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Marie Cruz talk about the evolution of k6 from a load testing tool to a reliability testing tool. They also demonstrate how to combine various modules and extensions with k6.

Distributed Tracing With Grafana k6 (k6 Office Hours #70)

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:03:04 +0100

Just announced: distributed tracing with Grafana k6 x Tempo! Daniel González Lopes joins us to talk about what distributed tracing is, and how traces using the Tempo backend could help you troubleshoot your performance issues and improve overall reliability. This new integration was just announced at ObservabilityCon 2022, and Daniel’s here to tell us all about it!

Resources

All About Load Testing Metrics (k6 Office Hours #69)

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:00:07 +0200

Leandro Melendez and Nicole van der Hoeven discuss all about load testing metrics. What do they all mean? Which ones do you REALLY need? Understanding metrics and analysing test results is arguably the most important part of a load test– and also the most difficult! We’re answering all the questions you ever had about the many metrics that come with load and performance testing.

Assertions in k6 (k6 Office Hours #68)

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:29:35 +0200

How do you do assertions in k6? CTO Pawel Suwala talks about different ways to implement BDD/TDD in k6, including an assertion library called k6chaijs. We also discuss the differences between checks, thresholds, and assertions.

End-to-end browser testing using xk6-browser (k6 Office Hours #51)
Browser-based testing (notes)
Browser testing and API load testing in the same script with k6 (k6 Office Hours #35)
In search of the best Pokémon: Browser automation and load testing in one script with k6 (presentation at Automation Guild 2022)
Real browser testing with xk6-browser

Load Testing Types and k6 Executors (k6 Office Hours #67)

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:36:55 +0200

What are the different load testing types, and how do they relate to the k6 executors? We go through every single k6 executor and how, when, and why you should use each one in this week’s episode of k6 Office Hours.

All About Web Performance (k6 Office Hours #66)

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:25:24 +0200

My fellow Developer Advocate and tester Marie Cruz and I talk all about web performance and best practices for making websites faster. What’s the difference between performance testing a website vs. an API? What are some things you should keep in mind when testing a web app?

Performance testing for beginners (k6 Office Hours #65)

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:45:08 +0200

My colleague Paul Balogh and I interview the k6 technical writer, Matt Dodson, who asks all the questions about load and performance testing that you were always afraid to ask.

DevOps Paradox: Performance Testing With k6

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:40:22 +0100

Darin Pope and Viktor Farcic from the DevOps Paradox podcast and the DevOps Toolkit YouTube channel invited me onto their show to talk about performance testing with k6, and why it’s awesome to be able to write load tests in languages that aren’t vendor-specific!

Listen to the podcast here.

How to Make Kubernetes Clusters Production Ready using Crossplane, with Viktor Farcic (k6 Office Hours #46)

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:30:45 +0100

In this video, Viktor Farcic, Paul Balogh and I talk about how to make Kubernetes clusters production-ready. Viktor is a Developer Advocate from Upbound, and he demonstrates a solution that ties together Crossplane, Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki to deploy and manage clusters in production.

Private Load Zones for Load Testing (k6 Office Hours #44)

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 10:01:57 +0100

Load testing on the cloud definitely has its advantages, but what if you need to load test behind a firewall? Here to talk about using private load zones in k6 are k6 CTO Pawel Suwala and k6 Backend Lead Samuel Regandell. Private load zones are a new feature of k6 Cloud that will allow you to run load tests against applications that are not publicly accessible and also use your own AWS account to generate the load.