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Running load tests to understand how our web app performs

Running load tests to understand how our web app performs - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: Complete Guide to Serverless Web App Development on AWS

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Running load tests to understand how our web app performs

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- [Instructor] Serverless is great. It takes care of many operational tasks for you, but when you're building an app, no matter the tech you use, you always need to make sure it can handle the load. With serverless, your app can scale, but it's your job to configure it correctly. A good way to check if everything is ready is to run load test. In this video, I will show you a simple tool you can use for that and how to check if your app is staying healthy under a load. I have been using Artillery for years to run load tests on serverless application. It's free and supports different environments. I will not go over everything it can do, but I recommend checking their docs. So if you run Artillery, you can run it in a virtual machine locally, in a lambda function, or in Fargate and you can basically check all the docs here and you can see where it can run the load test. So Lambda, Fargate. In a virtual machine, you can install it or locally. If you run it locally, it's easy to start…

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