ERerikerikson·Sep 23, 2019
See https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery
Note performance, acceptance, and monitoring modes
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7 sourcesWe created serverless-artillery[1] for testing end to end. As the bonus the load tests can then be used for acceptance and monitoring as well.
[1] https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery
In Serverless: slower and more expensiveServerless Artillery: Instant, cheap, and easy performance testing at scale
2 points · Open discussionI searched around and closest I found was https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery
In The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWSArtillery via AWS lambda https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery
In Ask HN: What are you using for http load testing?Better to try serverless-artillery:
https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery
Eventually:
https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-jmeter
In Distributed Performance Testing in the Cloud with JMeter and AWSShow HN: Go DDOS Yourself (serverless-artillery)
TL;DR:
npm install -g serverless
npm install serverless-artillery
export AWS_PROFILE=<your-aws-credentials-profile>
# export HTTP_PROXY=<your-corporate-proxy>
slsart deploy
slsart invoke
# you just sent 10 request at http://aws.amazon.com. Hungry for more? Continue:
slsart script -e https://your.endpoint.com -d 60 -r 1000
# this specifies 1 minute of 1000 HTTP requests per second at your endpoint - see script.yml in the local directory and artillery.io for docs
slsart invoke
# 1K RPS will happen for a minute. Yea! What fun. Now, clean up after yourself
slsart remove
# Full README and details on GitHub (https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery)
# We wanted to make distributed load testing so easy that it could happen automatically with every push. It's worked nicely. It scales fantastically. You don't have to think about h
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ow it does so. Global distribution across regions and POPs are thoughts for the future.
# If you like the tool, you'll want to eventually setup load result recording that can handle your volume. There is an Influx DB plugin for that. In fact, there's a whole workshop for that (see lesson 4).
# Workshop: https://github.com/Nordstrom/serverless-artillery-workshop
# This tool automatically splits the artillery script into Lambda-sized chunks to be executed in a coordinated, distributed manner without burdening you with any of the details of what it takes to do this.
# a more general form is to come.
# [INSERT LEGAL DISCLAIMER]