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A blog about Load Impact, k6.io and performance testing

In Tutorials. On 2019-10-04
Performance monitoring with cron and k6
This tutorial will show you how to schedule k6 tests with cron to monitor the performance of your system.
In API Testing. On 2019-09-20
Load testing GraphQL with k6
The popularity and adoption of GraphQL have been impressive in the last years, this post provides an example using k6 to load testing a GraphQL service.
On 2019-09-10
Getting Loaded
In this post I’ll be exploring using a lightweight, modern load testing tool called k6 and combining it with Azure to provide a reporting solution.
On 2019-08-16
Guest Blog Post: How ShipEngine uses k6 to constantly stay on top of performance
At ShipEngine, Load testing is an important part of how we ensure this level of performance, no matter the day and no matter the time of year.
Product Update
In Releases. On 2019-07-31
July 2019 - Product Update
It has been a bit of time since we sent our last product update. Since then, a lot of things have happened in the k6 community and LoadImpact.
On 2019-07-02
k6 as alternative for Azure and Visual Studio load tests
Microsoft stated that 2019 is the last version of Visual Studio with load testing features. They recommend that their customers seek out alternative load testing tools.
In Tutorials. On 2019-05-06
How to send k6 metrics to Datadog
This article will show how you can use k6 to store the results of your load tests into Datadog.
In API Testing. On 2019-03-26
New Postman to k6 converter tool with support for pre-request and test scripts
Announcement of many improvements of the postman-to-k6 converter with support for pre-request and test scripts.
Release
In Releases. On 2019-03-25
Insights UX/UI Refactoring
We’ve released a significant UX and UI refactor on Insights. This post compares the new to the old version.