Best way to benchmark and load test an api.

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  • siege

    Siege is an http load tester and benchmarking utility

  • I like https://github.com/JoeDog/siege for quick and dirty. A bit more flexible than apache bench

  • locust

    Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨

  • Been using https://locust.io/ in the past.

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  • Hey

    HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement (by rakyll)

  • hey is my go to tool for this: https://github.com/rakyll/hey

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