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Recording a performance test with Grafana Cloud k6 (k6 Office Hours #93)

Senior Frontend Engineer Edvinas Daugirdas demonstrates recording a performance test with Grafana Cloud k6 and some other new features that have recently come to Grafana Cloud. He is joined by Developer Advocates Marie Drake and Nicole van der Hoeven to talk about getting started with k6 for free.

Grafana k6 v0.45.0 release: gRPC streaming support, cloud script updates without running tests and more!

Grafana k6 v0.45.0 has been released, featuring a new experimental module for gRPC streaming support, a new browser recorder extension for Firefox and Chrome, and tons of improvements for Grafana k6 OSS and Grafana Cloud k6. Here’s a quick overview of the latest k6 release and all the news from the community.

Testing Kubernetes networking with k6 - Roberto Santalla (k6 Office Hours #91)

How would you go about testing Kubernetes networking? For his initial project with k6, our new Senior Software Engineer, Roberto Santalla, talks to us about how he used k6 to improve end-to-end network throughput and some insights he learned about Kubernetes networking along the way. He is joined by Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Leandro Melendez.

Compare Grafana k6 browser vs. Google Lighthouse for web performance testing

The Grafana k6 browser module simulates how users interact with a browser page and collects web performance metrics about the interaction. Since launching the module in 2021, we're frequently asked how it compares to Google Lighthouse as a tool to measure web page performance. This blog post compares k6 browser and Google Lighthouse from various perspectives.

How Supabase does performance benchmarking using k6, with Egor Romanov (#89)

In this k6 Office Hours, we talk about how Supabase does performance benchmarking using k6 with Egor Romanov, SDET at Supabase; Théo Crevon, Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs; and Nicole van der Hoeven, Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs. Supabase is an open-source alternative to Firebase.