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I built BuzzBench because I was frustrated with how complex performance testing tools have become. And I was ending up writing my own scripts to test endpoints and manually check out resource usage at the time of testing.

Checkout demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAnbZMoQvmQ

This is a pretty crowded space, with a wide range of solutions for all kinds of situations. Have you looked into https://k6.io/ ? IMO it strikes a good balance of being simple to start with, but flexible to support advanced use cases if needed.

At the very least, the first thing I would like to see is a comparison of your platform to existing tools and services.

10 months agoby imiric

I’ve been looking for something just like this. And thinking of writing my own just like you ;) I’m new to the whole web app area, coming from desktop: how would you best explain or pitch this to a newbie who understands the need but that’s about it?

Can it be used for once-off testing (per deployment we can handle n thousand connections / hour) or can it track performance and response speed so you can see how your servers are doing over time?

10 months agoby vintagedave

Few years ago, I had to load test production site for upcoming events. Local test was unrealistic. Some testing tool was re-using connection. I used loader.io to test. There was some issues I can't recall but it was great for both frontend and backend. I was able to test frontend at around 10 gbps.

10 months agoby new_user_final

Looks neat, but I hate the "limited free" thing. What's the actual price? If I make this product a part of my team's workflow, what's the future sticker shock?

10 months agoby sepositus

Interesting. Internally we made a similar tool for performance testing applications, including fault and latency simulation of dependencies. It also includes analysis of resource consumption and whether performance and/or resource consumption have increased or decreased.

This is now the second time a similar tool has popped up here at HN, maybe we should open source it.

10 months agoby spockz

How is it any different than something like Gatling?

10 months agoby xon94010