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I agree! Comes with the territory of a compiled language I suppose? I haven't given this much thought (I also just started with golang last year) but I'm assuming the only real path here is to provide extension SDKs in Lua or other languages whose interpreters have been implemented in go. I think that's what grafana's k6 [1] does with a JS interpreter [1] https://github.com/grafana/k6

Sincere question : how is it different that something like K6 ? > https://github.com/grafana/k6

I know this is about Desktop HTTP testing but have anyone experimented with command-line HTTP testing? I recall having a good experience with https://github.com/grafana/k6 some eons ago. It's geared towards load testing in JS but it also allows you to check HTTP body, headers, etc.

k6.io | Go Engineer - k6 open-source developer | REMOTE in Europe Apply at: https://loadimpacte4.applytojob.com/apply/utlvKOlILJ/Go-Engi... or via email pawel@k6.io You will be one of four developers and maintainers of k6[0], a modern open-source tool for performance testing, written in Go. k6 was released publicly in early 2017 and has already received over 11,000 stars on GitHub. We have a quickly growing community of users and contributors. Your responsibilities will be to build new features, maintain the code base and interface with the user community (i.e. review patches :) and potentially evangelize the tool. Skills required: We are looking for a person combining strong programming skills with experience in contributing to open-source projects. Applicants must: - Have a strong programming background and experience developing applica

k6.io | Go Engineer - k6 open-source maintainer | REMOTE in Europe Apply at: https://loadimpacte4.applytojob.com/apply/utlvKOlILJ/Go-Engi... You will be one of four developers and maintainers of k6, a modern open-source tool for performance testing, written in Go. k6 was released publicly in early 2017 and has already received over 10,000 stars on Github[0] and has an active community of users and contributors. Recent HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25234746 You will have a lot of influence on the project road map and will work with a high degree of autonomy, building and maintaining the tool. Your responsibilities will be to both write code, extending the functionality of k6, and to maintain the code base, interface with the user community (i.e. review patches :) and potentially evangelize the tool. Your main, long-term goa

I agree that the popular load testing tools leave plenty to be desired, but have you given k6[1] a try? (Full disclosure: I'm one of the maintainers.) Tests are written in JavaScript and there's support for HTTP, WebSockets and (unary) gRPC. You can easily script a combination of these protocols to mimic real world traffic. Furthermore you can record a user flow with a browser extension[2] and convert the generated HAR file to a k6 script[3], which would give you an even closer real world scenario. The conversion is not perfect and depending on the service you might need to manually modify the script, but it would get you 90% of the way there. [1]: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6 [2]: https://k6.io/docs/test-authoring/recording-a-session/browse... [3]: https://github.com/loadimpact/har-to-k6

Well, an "average" HN user may use something like a load testing tool such as https://github.com/loadimpact/k6 or at least rent a few VMs with 10Gbps links for a few hours and use wrk/ab so I would not be so sure about (a). Edit: oh, and then they might dust off that Kali Linux VM lying around somewhere...

k6.io | Go Engineer - k6 open-source maintainer | REMOTE in Europe Apply at: https://loadimpacte4.applytojob.com/apply/utlvKOlILJ/Go-Engi... You will be one of four developers and maintainers of k6, a modern open-source tool for performance testing, written in Go. k6 was released publicly in early 2017 and has already received over 10,000 stars on Github[0] and has an active community of users and contributors. Recent HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25234746 You will have a lot of influence on the project road map and will work with a high degree of autonomy, building and maintaining the tool. Your responsibilities will be to both write code, extending the functionality of k6, and to maintain the code base, interface with the user community (i.e. review patches :) and potentially evangelize the tool. Your main, long-term goa

Unfortunately not... At some point in the far future, we might release support for Go "scripting" [1] or we might extend xk6 [2] so it allows different script types, but those things are far from certain. [1] https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/issues/751 [2] https://github.com/k6io/xk6

This used to be an issue with older k6 versions, but since v0.27.0 we have arrival-rate executors [1] that should address the biggest issue of coordinated omission. And we've always measured the max value of all metrics, even when they are not exported to some external output and we just show the end-of-test summary. It has been a while since I watched these Gil Tene talks, so I might be missing something, but I think the only remaining task we have is to adopt something like his HDR histogram library [2]. And that's mostly for performance reasons, though we'll probably play around with the correction logic as well. [1] https://k6.io/docs/using-k6/scenarios/arrival-rate [2] https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/issues/763