Getting started: Load Testing with Gatling and Redline13 – Part 2

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Less Painful, Almost Free, Web Load Testing

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With cloud computing, load testing at scale became available to anyone. You no longer have to invest in hardware to run your test. With a credit card and a few clicks, you have all the computing power you will ever need. But with this distributed setup of short lived test nodes comes complexity. Management of node life cycle, software installation, test distribution, and collecting results, to name a few. A number of SaaS services have emerged to reduce this complexity, such as BlazeMeter. One of them, RedLine13 stands out from the others by being almost free. All you need to pay for are the AWS EC2 instances you use in your own account. For a large test, this is typically less than $5 USD per hour. In this video, our Lead Developer Martin Larsen will show you how easy it is.