To verify this statement, let's try to do a simple load test. For this purpose, we are going to use a simple Spring Boot 2.x application with Web MVC or WebFlux (let's call it the middleware). We are also going to simulate I/O activity from the middleware by making a few network calls to a third-party service, which will return an empty successful response with a guaranteed 200 milliseconds of average latency. The communication flow is depicted as follows:
Diagram 6.13. Communication flow for benchmark
To launch our middleware and simulate client activity, we are going to use a Microsoft ...
