Load testing is something very important in my job. I spend a decent amount of time checking how performant are some systems. There are some good tools out there (I’ve used Tsung extensively, and ab is brilliant for small checks), but I found that it’s difficult to create flows, where you produce several requests in succession and the input depends on the returned values of previous calls. Also, normally load test tools are focused in HTTP requests, which is fine most of the time, but sometimes is limiting. So, I got the idea… Read More