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A utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 instances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications).

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2011-03-04 · latest 2019-03-11

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  1. I used beeswithmachineguns at an old job :D too much fun! https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns
    comment by gargarplex · 2019-03-11 · in Ask HN: How to get practical experience in developing scalable apps
  2. Bees with machineguns https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns
    comment by hkchad · 2018-03-04 · in Ask HN: What are you using for http load testing?
  3. …test rig. It's a lot easier to get the load that way vs. trying to swarm Phantom or Selenium. 0: https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns
    comment by manyxcxi · 2017-02-07 · in Selenium IDE alternatives for UI regression testing
  4. I've had a lot of success using Bees With Machine Guns https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns/ (Also, the name is awesome)
    comment by foenix · 2016-08-12 · in Two tools for quick and easy web application load testing during development
  5. …similar service. Bootstrap the service by using this script under the hood and improve it overtime: https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns Use your $100K credit for spawning instance but also as a marketing hook: "first 1 day…
    comment by aymeric · 2015-05-14 · in Ask HN: I just got $100k in AWS credits, how should I use it?
  6. Here's one to spin up some temporary EC2 instances: https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns
    comment by nopal · 2015-04-30 · in How to Generate Millions of HTTP Requests (2012)
  7. …if I take up blogging again I'm going to just host it on a github page. You might find this useful: https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns
    comment by civilian · 2015-03-28 · in Identify and Manage the Honey Badger Developer
  8. …but there are some open source tools there. Under load testing it has Bees with Machine Guns ( https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns ), which is MIT licence.
    comment by rmc · 2014-07-14 · in Show HN: A mostly complete 2014 "Tools of the Trade"
  9. …* Blitz.io ( https://www.blitz.io/ ) Basically just a DDOS on your server. * BeesWithMachineGuns ( https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns ) You can set this up with EC2 and DDOS your own server with it as well. This gives you a…
    comment by rickyc091 · 2013-02-17 · in Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
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    Show HN: Beeswithmachineguns, lets you use EC2 to DDOS yourself
    story by jayzalowitz · 2012-12-30 · 7 comments
  11. I actually was pretty fond of this: https://github.com/newsapps/beeswithmachineguns I don't remember how I came across it but it's the same concept: fire up a swarm of EC2 instances to pound the shit out of your site.
    comment by lusis · 2011-03-04 · in Do C10K testing with gevent