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Load Testing Service Comparison

This post is sponsored by Dotcom-Monitor.


Load testing is an integral part of deploying any web service. It should be done already in the development phase to find bottlenecks and after deployment when users’ usage patterns are better known. That’s not where it stops, though, as load testing can also be used as a regular part of the web service’s maintenance. Deploying new features without checking their effect on the performance of the service can be a fatal mistake, which is why load testing could be very important when integrated with a continuous integration or continuous deployment system.

In this article, I will review four different load testing services (in alphabetic order): Spirent’s Blitz.io, Load Impact, SendGrid’s Loader.io, and Dotcom-Monitor’s LoadView.

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