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High Performance Testing
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SQL Load Tests
Test your MySQL, MariaDB, Aurora and PostgreSQL servers
Website Load Testing
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API Load Testing
Stress test your REST, GraphQL or any web API services
DDoS Simulation and Testing
Test your resilience to Denial of Service attacks
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News, tips, tricks and guides on modern application load testing
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What are common alternatives to PHP?
PHP is a widely used general-purpose scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. What are the popular alternatives?
Posted by LoadForge Team
on January 9, 2022. 3 minutes reading time.
Why is PHP such a popular language?
Why is PHP such a popular language, and why does it power so many websites? Part of its popularity comes from the fact that it was initially designed as a templating system.
on January 9, 2022. 2 minutes reading time.
Why is Nginx preferred for high performance?
Nginx is preferred by many developers, as well as those hosting websites, since it allows for speedier delivery of files than other servers such as WAMP or Apache.
New feature: Scheduling Tests
We're proud to announce the launch of our test scheduler, which allows you to schedule any number of runs of any number of tests using powerful cron expressions.
on December 31, 2021. 1 minute reading time.
MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Aurora Load Testing
We are proud to announce the beta release of LoadForge's SQL load testing service! A free upgrade for all our existing Essential (and higher) users, SQL load testing allows you to stress test your database infrastructure.
on December 22, 2021. 1 minute reading time.
New Grouped Chart on Reports
We have added an additional top level chart to both Load Test and DoS test reports which allows you to see a grouped view of the data.
on December 21, 2021. 1 minute reading time.
MQTT, Websockets, Kafka testing made easy
We've updated the LoadForge test clients to include more plugins for testing non-standard HTTP/HTTPS services. In particular, this allows Kafka, MQTT and easier websocket testing for our users.
on December 20, 2021. 1 minute reading time.
Automatically Loading Page Resources
We have released an update to the LoadForge test clients that allows automatic discovery of page resources by setting a regular expression which will then automatically fetch that content from pages.
AWS Outage Causing Degraded Service
There is currently an AWS outage (from around 45 minutes before this post) affecting parts of the LoadForge service for certain users.
on December 7, 2021. 1 minute reading time.
Reduce WSL2 Disk Usage
WSL2 on Windows is amazing for developers, but it constantly grows in size and ultimately winds up using a lot more disk space than necessary. Especially if you are a Docker user.
on November 8, 2021. 3 minutes reading time.
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