perfTools.md

Perf Testing Notes/Considerations

Great, comprehensive listing of almost the entire perf/load marketplace:

GitHub - mgasiorowski/performance_testing: Tools, articles, etc. related to performance/load/etc. testing.

• Language - Python, or language-agnostic/CLI tool
• Performance/load/spike(+/-) testing
• Support for event-driven messaging services
  • gRPC, etc
• Paid vs. open-source
  • Prefer OSS as it’s free, and more control over the tool
• Flexibility - licensing model (if paid)
• CI
  • Jenkins pipelines (plugins)
• Eventually have a test-only DB or DBs for specific usage
  • Contract
  • functional/state
  • Perf/load/spike/etc.
  • Etc..
• Region performance
  • Need to think about different AZs
  • Our apps will start in US-West but we need to test as users in different AZs across the world
• Have a “synthetic” pinging/using different areas with very small impact to heuristically see if the app areas are performing correctly so users don’t have to find it
• Reporting
• Analysis
  • Feed perf results to log analysis like grafana
    • Does IA already have grafana and alerts set up?
      • Hook into existing