grpcurl VS wrk

grpcurl

The API server will be built and start running on port 50051. You can test the functionality using a gRPC client of your choice like grpcurl or Postman.

> What is the ubiquitous utility for interacting with gRPC? We have curl for REST. What is openAPI of gRPC?

grpcurl[1] combined with gRPC server reflection[2]. The schema is compiled into the server as an encoded proto which is exposed via server reflection, which grpcurl reads to send correctly encoded requests.

[1] https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl

The whole idea behind the post is that accessing the gRPC service with regular tools is impossible. To test, we need a dedicated tool nonetheless. I found grpcurl. Let's install it and use it to list available services:

A simple GRPC client built using grpcurl.

You can use grpcurl to achieve this effect: https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl

As I said before, the grpcurl utility is an equivalent to curl, but here instead of acting like an HTTP client (like curl), we use grpcurl as a gRPC client to test services from a running gRPC server. So, let’s use it to play a little bit more with our hello world.

> My initial requirement was to send requests with unique parameters. To the best of my knowledge, no tool could do this.

wrk does this with lua. https://github.com/wg/wrk/blob/master/src/wrk.lua

Also even things like the venerable jmeter supported pulling parameters from a csv file.

We used wrk2, a fantastic tool to generate stable load on the server. Wrk2 improves on wrk and adds the ability to generate sustained load at a specific rate (-R parameter).

We use locust at work but I HIGHLY recommend wrk for a very robust yet simple load testing tool.

https://github.com/wg/wrk

And of course, this talk by Gil Tene is fantastic if you're interested in load testing stats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU

Good morning what tool do you use to test your infra in terms of http load ? A tool that works, I tested : - https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta but it returns 0 errors or a http_net error from Golang - LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Canon) https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC but the requests do not appear in my nginx logs and I feel no slowdown - Apache Jmeter https://jmeter.apache.org/ but I can't drop my infra and I have Java socket closed errors - K6 https://k6.io/ but I can't bring down my infra with - wrk https://github.com/wg/wrk no matter what parameter I put it doesn't make enough requests per second, I put the same parameters as on a tutorial and I don't get the same result...

You could try to just blast it with wrk or bombardier. Can easily get around 50k requests on consumer machine.

Sure, first I did the load testing on the same machine. The same machine ran web servers, php-fpm and ab / wrk programs.

Using the wrk tool to pressure test the api

Here is what it takes to inflict $$$ damages to a service using "serverless functions" under the hood, with wrk:

The benchmark is a simple "hello world" server that returns a JSON response. Server frameworks are correspondingly Fastify for Node and Axum for Rust. Both were running on my laptop (specs should not matter, IMHO, as this is not about absolute numbers). Test load was provided by wrk that was running on the same machine.

Testes usando a ferramenta WRK para fazer requests simultâneos nas rotas e comparar quantos requests por segundo a API suporta