Performance testing for high traffic applications

Performance testing is crucial for ensuring your application can handle real-world usage scenarios, especially under high load. By systematically implementing and running performance tests, analyzing results, and optimizing based on findings, you can significantly improve your application’s responsiveness, stability, and scalability.

The recipe will show the basics of how to benchmark your application with Locust framework.

Getting ready

To run performance testing you need a working application, we will use our protoapp, and a testing framework. We will use Locust framework for the purpose, which a testing framework based on Python syntax.

You can find a detailed explication on the official documentation at: https://docs.locust.io/en/stable/.

Before starting, make sure you installed it in your virtual environment by running:

$ pip install locust

Now we are ready to setup our configuration file and run the...