Load testing isn’t always as straightforward as one might think. Setting up and executing a load test based on anecdotal information isn’t the best method. Make the wrong assumption and you might quickly find the breaking point of your application or website,...
APIs are integrated into many of the web services used today, allowing systems to send and communicate various pieces of information back and forth. As such, they are a powerful link between critical services and users. And as with any important part of a system, it...
Load Testing Single-Page Application (SPAs) A Single-Page Application (SPA), also sometimes referred to as a Single-Page Interface (SPI), is a web application or website that “fits” on an individual page and updates the page dynamically, rather than loading a new...
What is Auto Scaling? Auto scaling is a method associated with cloud computing that automatically increases or decreases the number of resources you have in your application, at any time according to their needs. Before using cloud computing, it was very difficult to...
Gatling is an open-source tool for performance and stress testing that is well worth adding to your personal tool knowledge repository. You may have already heard about Gatling if you are working in the performance testing field. Gatling has been around for close to a...