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Load testing with k6 for beginners, with Inanç Gümüs and Viktor Mihajlovic (k6 Office Hours #31)

Load testing with k6 can be daunting for beginners. In this k6 Office Hours, we talk about first impressions and potential issues when getting started with k6. k6 Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven and k6 Technical Customer Success Engineer Viktor Mihajlovic welcome a new member to the k6 team, Software Engineer Inanç Gümüs.

How to use k6 Cloud - a k6 load testing tutorial with Bill Rainaud (k6 Office Hours #29)

In this episode of k6 Office Hours, Nicole and Simme are joined by Bill Rainaud, Inside Account Executive at k6, to show how to use k6 Cloud, and the easiest way to get started with k6 load testing. Tune in to watch a full tutorial on how to run your first load test, even without any code.

Intro to load testing with k6 and Grafana (k6 data source plugin and Prometheus Remote Write)

Nicole van der Hoeven talks about what performance testing is, why it's the other half of observability, and the easiest way to run a test using k6 while seeing the results on Grafana. She mentions integration options, involving the k6 Grafana data source plugin as well as how to utilize Prometheus Remote Write to visualize k6 load testing results along with other metrics to Grafana. This is a pre-recording walkthrough of the live webinar Nicole did for Grafana Labs on September 16th, 2021.

How to Load Test Your Kafka Producers and Consumers using k6

Recently, k6 started supporting k6 extensions to extend k6 capabilities for other cases required by the community. The community has already built plenty of extensions. k6 extensions are written in Go, and many of them are reusing existing Go libraries. This makes k6 to be a versatile tool to test different protocols and adapt to multiple cases. This post is the third part of my series of articles testing various systems using k6: Let's look in this post how we test the popular Kafka project.

Chaos testing with k6, Prometheus, and Grafana (Schrödinger's Pokémon)

In this presentation, Nicole van der Hoeven talks about what chaos engineering is, what it has to do with testing, and how to run chaos experiments and load tests in the same script, using k6. She also talks about how to set up Grafana and Prometheus for observability during chaos testing.