ASP.NET Core 3 and React

Testing the current implementation

Before we change the unanswered questions endpoint, let's do a load test on the current implementation. We are interested in the number of threads that are being used. Therefore, we are going to do a load test where the API struggles and look at the number of threads being used. Follow these steps to do just that:

1. Let's start our REST API by pressing F5 in Visual Studio.

2. Now, we can load test the current implementation using WebSurge. Let's set the request URL path to /api/questions/unanswered and change the duration to 60 seconds, which will allow us to see requests timing out when the API is struggling to cope with the load.
3. We'll need to experiment with the number of the threads, but let's start with ...