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A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript

27 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 12 stories, 15 comments · first 2017-05-06 · latest 2026-10-07

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  1. …have been implemented in go. I think that's what grafana's k6 [1] does with a JS interpreter [1] https://github.com/grafana/k6
    comment by gandreani · 2026-10-07 · in Docker Agent
  2. Sincere question : how is it different that something like K6 ? > https://github.com/grafana/k6
    comment by srameshc · 2024-11-07 · in CodSpeed – integrated CI tool for performance testing
  3. …but have anyone experimented with command-line HTTP testing? I recall having a good experience with https://github.com/grafana/k6 some eons ago. It's geared towards load testing in JS but it also allows you to check HTTP body, headers, etc.
    comment by hu3 · 2023-10-09 · in HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
  4. …a remote-first company. We accept remote applicants in European time zones. [0] https://k6.io/ [1] https://github.com/loadimpact/k6
    comment by sniku · 2021-03-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
  5. …are located in Stockholm, you can work from the office, otherwise, you can work 100% remotely. [0] https://github.com/loadimpact/k6
    comment by sniku · 2021-02-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
  6. …you might need to manually modify the script, but it would get you 90% of the way there. [1]: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6 [2]: https://k6.io/docs/test-authoring/recording-a-session/browse... [3]: https://github.com/loadimpact/har-to-k6
    comment by imiric · 2021-01-05 · in Load testing is hard and the tools are not great
  7. Well, an "average" HN user may use something like a load testing tool such as https://github.com/loadimpact/k6 or at least rent a few VMs with 10Gbps links for a few hours and use wrk/ab so I would not be so sure about (a). Edit: oh, and…
    comment by smarx007 · 2021-01-02 · in Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues
  8. …are located in Stockholm, you can work from the office, otherwise, you can work 100% remotely. [0] https://github.com/loadimpact/k6
    comment by sniku · 2020-12-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
  9. …extend xk6 [2] so it allows different script types, but those things are far from certain. [1] https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/issues/751 [2] https://github.com/k6io/xk6
    comment by na-- · 2020-11-30 · in K6: Like unit testing, for performance
  10. …with the correction logic as well. [1] https://k6.io/docs/using-k6/scenarios/arrival-rate [2] https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/issues/763
    comment by na-- · 2020-11-28 · in K6: Like unit testing, for performance
  11. …) and thresholds ( https://k6.io/docs/using-k6/thresholds ). See the example in https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/#checks-and-thresholds . If, at the end of the test run, some of these rules (encoded as `thresholds`) were unsatisfied, k6 w
    comment by na-- · 2020-11-28 · in K6: Like unit testing, for performance
  12. …and we've recently added a way to extend the k6 functionality by writing external Go modules: - https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/blob/master/release%20notes... - https://github.com/k6io/xk6
    comment by na-- · 2020-11-28 · in K6: Like unit testing, for performance
  13. Yeah, we have this issue: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/issues/140 But you can actually aggregate results already, if you use InfluxDB as results storage: you can have multiple k6 instances push results data to the same InfluxDB…
    comment by rlonn · 2017-05-07 · in Show HN: K6 – developer-centric load testing using Go and JavaScript
  14. If you're interested, here is the Github issue for Websockets support in k6: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/issues/178 We'd really appreciate any comments/feedback you may have on exactly how it should be implemented.
    comment by rlonn · 2017-05-06 · in Show HN: K6 – developer-centric load testing using Go and JavaScript
  15. …the nice words! If you see anything missing, don't hesitate to create an issue about it on Github ( https://github.com/loadimpact/k6 ). We're trying really hard to build the things people ask for. About CSV output though, we have JSON…
    comment by rlonn · 2017-05-06 · in Show HN: K6 – developer-centric load testing using Go and JavaScript