Simple HTTP stress testing

This small C++ software has only one final scope: to have a simple backend to be used to test the speed of PostgreSQL workloads when a new connection is established per every request.

Configuration

Environment variables are your friends:

• DATABASE_URL is used as a connection string (libpq is being used to communicate with the PostgreSQL server);

• SQL_QUERY is the SQL query that will be executed when accessing the /tx endpoint.

The endpoint /.well-known/check will always return "ok".

Other considerations

As previously said, a new connection is established per request, without any connection pool. Use pgbouncer if you need something like that.

Docker image

A simple Docker image containing this utility can be found at quay.io.

Thanks

https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib is a great tool, really.