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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: High-Performance Load Testing
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Francesco Nigro (@forked_franz) about:
discussion about the importance of stress testing over System Tests and unit tests,
Coordinated Omission Problem in load generators where they don't accurately measure server performance during slowdowns,
introduction to HyperFoil as a high-performance load generator capable of generating millions of requests per second with just two cores,
explanation of how HyperFoil avoids GC overhead by pre-allocating resources,
the architecture of HyperFoil using Netty event loops and a graph-based execution model,
comparison with other load testing tools like JMeter,
K6,
Apache Benchmark and Vegeta,
introduction to QDUP as a shell...