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Effortless Load Testing Using Open-Source Tools with Simon Aronsson

29 September 2020 at 12:24 PM
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Effortless Load Testing Using Open-Source Tools with Simon Aronsson

About this Episode:

Load testing and performance monitoring used to be challenging and bothersome. Not any more! In this episode, Simon Aronsson, a developer advocate at k6, will share his vision for a code-first approach to performance using open- source technologies. Discover how to incorporate load testing into your everyday test automation, how to avoid common pitfalls while scripting load tests, how to visualize your performance testing data, and more. Listen up!

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About Simon Aronsson

simon Aronsson

Simon is a gopher, developer advocate, open-source maintainer, and GDG organizer from Sweden. He has more than 10 years of experience working in tech as a full-stack developer, ops engineer, tech lead, and architect. During the last couple of years, He’s put a lot of time into DevOps practices, cloud development, automation, and creating highly efficient, self-organizing teams.

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