Senior Software Engineer Mostafa Moradian joins us to talk about load testing Apache Kafka using k6 and the extension he created, called xk6-kafka. He describes what Kafka is, the basics of Kafka, and why he thinks load testing it is important. Mostafa works on the backend team at k6/Grafana Labs.

Check out xk6-kafka at: https://github.com/mostafa/xk6-kafka

// REFERENCES

We used some video clips from these awesome people:

@Stephane Maarek : Apache Kafka in 5 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch
@Ciaran O'Donnell Introduction to Message Brokers: https://www.youtube.com/watch
@A Dev' Story : What is Event Driven Architecture?: https://www.youtube.com/watch

And here are other resources we mentioned:

Mathias Verraes - Eventsourcing: State from Events or Events from State?: https://verraes.net/2019/08/eventsourcing-state-from-events-vs-events-as-state/

Contact Mostafa:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MosiMoradian
Site: https://mostafa.dev/

Contact Nicole:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/n_vanderhoeven
Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com

Contact Paul:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/javaducky
Site: https://javaducky.com/

Learn more about k6:
Website: https://k6.io
Repo: https://github.com/k6io/k6