Is your site ready for its big break?
Making it to the front page of a site like Reddit or Hacker News can bring a swell of new visitors to your website, but if you are unprepared it can also cause your webserver to crash.
The only way to know how your webserver will perform under a large load is to test it. In this video, I provide an introduction to K6 (https://k6.io) an open-source load testing tool and use it to set up and run a test against the companion website for this channel (https://devopsdirective.com).
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Timestamps:
0:01- Intro
0:53 - Disclaimer
1:08 - Test Server Set-Up
1:52 - K6 Overview
2:16 - Creating K6 Test
4:03 - Running Test and Evaluating Results
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