Chapter 6: Web App Performance Testing with Siege: Plan, Test, Learn
by Zoran Antolovic
Building a simple web application today isn’t that hard. The web development community is friendly, and there are lots of discussions on Stack Overflow or similar platforms, and various sites with lessons and tutorials.
Almost anyone can build an app locally, deploy it to a server, and proudly show it to your friends. I hope you’ve already done all of this, and your project went viral, so you’re obviously here because you want to learn how to make sure your app is ready for some high traffic.
If we think about a web app as a black box, things are quite simple: the app waits for a request, processes it, and returns the response presentation of a resource ...
Get Performance Tools now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
