Load testing loadtest

[alexfernandez]

Title / Título

Load testing loadtest

Description / Descripción

The loadtest npm package has 2.5k stars on GitHub and is widely used for, er, load testing: sending lots of fake requests to see how your application performs. It has 41 contributors to date from all over the world. And, after three years in deep maintenance, it was showing its age.

It was due time to update it to modern JavaScript: async/await, ES module, and more. But we can go beyond this: it used to max out at around 1000 requests per second. Can we go beyond this? Can we get near what the awesome autocannon by the great Matteo Collina can do? Can we really compete with software written in C like Apache ab? At least we will try!

Speaker Bio / Bio del Ponente

Silverback developer and recovering CTO that likes to work on absurd performance stuff.

Level / Nivel

Intermediate

Duration / Duración

45 min

Constraints / Condicionantes

Proposal for September in case there is no other. Can be done in English or Spanish depending on the audience.