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Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET

You're reading from   Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET A developer's guide to building cloud-native applications using the Dapr event-driven runtime

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568372
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Davide Bedin Davide Bedin
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Dapr
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Dapr FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Debugging Dapr Solutions 4. Section 2: Building Microservices with Dapr
5. Chapter 3: Service-to-Service Invocation 6. Chapter 4: Introducing State Management 7. Chapter 5: Publish and Subscribe 8. Chapter 6: Resource Bindings 9. Chapter 7: Using Actors 10. Section 3: Deploying and Scaling Dapr Solutions
11. Chapter 8: Deploying to Kubernetes 12. Chapter 9: Tracing Dapr Applications 13. Chapter 10: Load Testing and Scaling Dapr 14. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix – Microservices Architecture with Dapr

Chapter 10: Load Testing and Scaling Dapr

In this chapter, we will learn how to scale Dapr applications in a Kubernetes environment. After that, we will learn how to load test a Dapr solution by simulating user behavior with the Locust testing tool.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Scaling Dapr in Kubernetes
  • Load testing with Locust
  • Load testing Dapr
  • Autoscaling with KEDA

Load testing is an important practice in software development. It offers developers and operators a scientific approach, guided by practices and tools, to finding the best possible answer to various questions, such as how will this application react to an increase in requests? At which point will the application's response start degrading in terms of success rate and response time? Will the infrastructure be able to sustain a specific rate of requests with a certain level of performance with the allocated resources?

These questions explore both the technical...

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