NAnateb2022·Sep 12, 2024Submission
Bombardier: Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go
32 points · Open discussioncodesenberg
bombardier
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codesenberg / bombardier
bombardier
Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go
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Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go
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- hallatore/netling · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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Observed mentions: 2017-02-23 18:15:21 UTC to 2024-09-12 11:04:55 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
7 sources1: Small website with simple JS to ddos a list of russian gov and propaganda websites. Works anywhere where those are not blocked (e.g. Ukraine). Link - https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/
2. Console tool for unplanned load testing
Link - https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier/releases/tag/v1.2....
Example usage - ./bombardier-linux-amd64 --duration=240h --connections=1000 --latencies https://lenta.ru
UPD: For some of the sites, you may need to run Chrome with CORS disabled: https://alfilatov.com/posts/run-chrome-without-cors/
Windows: Right click on desktop, add new shortcut, Add the target as "[PATH_TO_CHROME]\chrome.exe" --disable-web-security --disable-gpu --user-data-dir=~/chromeTemp , Click OK.
OSX: open -n -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --args --user-data-dir="/tmp/chrome_dev_test"
Read the rest
--disable-web-security ,
Linux: google-chrome --disable-web-security
For routing performance I ran them each locally with instructions from their github repos and the OSM extracts for a single state or city from https://download.geofabrik.de then used https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier to test latency/throughput with sample requests.
For resources to preprocess the world I ran Valhalla on my laptop and it preprocessed the world overnight. For graphhopper I kept running it on bigger and bigger digitalocean droplets until it just barely finished on their $640/month 64gb cpu-optimized droplet in about 12h. I didn’t even try osrm after reading that it needed about 300gb of ram.
Let me know if you have any better findings!
In Google Maps PlatformFrom the Microsoft world:
WCAT: https://www.iis.net/downloads/community/2007/05/wcat-63-x86 (pretty old and quite manual, but found it really effective, can control many clients distributing the load)
West Wind's WebSurge: https://websurge.west-wind.com/ Bloody good bit of kit and very easy to user
Bombadier: https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier
Very fast Go HTTP(S) benchmarking.
And Netling: https://github.com/hallatore/Netling
I just really like it.
In Ask HN: What are you using for http load testing?Codesenberg/bombardier: Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go
2 points · Open discussionThese are the ones I've used recently. Primarily a Windows/.Net shop, so there's a lean towards tools that are scriptable, and don't require Java. ;)
Bombardier - fast cross-platform, written in Go. https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier
WCAT - quite a manual process to craft requests, but great to orchestrate several clients to hammer your server if needed. https://www.iis.net/downloads/community/2007/05/wcat-63-x64
West Wind WebSurge - Excellent tool, Very GUI focused (but has a command-line option) very easy to copy/create requests from fiddler. Approx $900USD site license. https://websurge.west-wind.com/
Netling - Very nice open source project with gui/console. https://github.com/hallatore/Netling
In Ask HN: Which load testing tool do you use? Any recommendations?bombardier – Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go
2 points · Open discussion