xk6

k6 extension development toolbox

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3Mentions

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302GitHub stars

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k6 extension development toolbox

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2020-11-28 08:08:18 UTC to 2020-11-30 09:03:37 UTC.

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Nov 28, 06:00	2020-11-28 06:00:00 UTC	2020-11-28 09:00:00 UTC	1	1
Nov 28, 09:00	2020-11-28 09:00:00 UTC	2020-11-28 12:00:00 UTC	1	1
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Nov 29, 00:00	2020-11-29 00:00:00 UTC	2020-11-29 03:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Nov 29, 06:00	2020-11-29 06:00:00 UTC	2020-11-29 09:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Nov 29, 18:00	2020-11-29 18:00:00 UTC	2020-11-29 21:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Nov 30, 09:00	2020-11-30 09:00:00 UTC	2020-11-30 12:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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na--·Nov 30, 2020

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

In K6: Like unit testing, for performance

sniku·Nov 28, 2020

The soon to be released "xk6 - k6 extensions"[1] will bring support for many new protocols. There are already proof of concept extensions for Redis, ZeroMQ, kafka, SQL, and others. Adding MQTT should be rather straightforward. [1] https://github.com/k6io/xk6

In K6: Like unit testing, for performance

na--·Nov 28, 2020

Yes, that's it. If the C++ application exposes some service, then k6 might be the tool to test how it behaves under load now (or in the future). The only protocols we currently support are HTTP(S), WebSockets and gRPC, though we plan to add a lot of others (raw TCP/UDP, various DBs, queues, messaging, DNS, etc.) in the future, and we've recently added a way to extend the k6 functionality by writing external Go modules: - https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/blob/master/release%20notes... - https://github.com/k6io/xk6

In K6: Like unit testing, for performance