July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
16h 1m
English
book
Node Cookbook - Third Edition
by Matteo Collina, David Mark Clements, Peter Elger, Mathias Buus Madsen
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Getting ready
We're going to use https://github.com/mcollina/autocannon as our load testing tool.
So let's run the following command in our terminal:
$ npm install -g autocannon
About Autocannon
Autocannon has two main advantages over other load testing tools. Firstly, it's cross-platform (macOS, Windows, and Linux), whereas alternatives (such as wrk and ab) either do not run on Windows or are non-trivial to set up. Secondly, autocannon supports pipelining, which allows for around 10% higher saturation than common alternatives.