Recommended tooling for load-testing an express REST API

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    HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!

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    A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript - https://k6.io

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    Load testing at cloud-scale. Serverless & distributed out-of-the-box. Load test with Playwright. Load test HTTP APIs, GraphQL, WebSocket, and more. Use any Node.js module. Never fail to scale with Artillery!

    I started using https://www.artillery.io/ for the websocket testing.

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