Kinds of performance tests
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Planned topics
- Load: expected traffic; does it meet the latency and error targets?
- Stress: grow beyond capacity; where and how does it break, and does it recover?
- Spike: a sudden jump (a flash sale); do queues, pools, and autoscaling cope?
- Soak: moderate load for hours; reveals leaks, slow growth, and resource exhaustion.
- Define a pass criterion (for example p95 below 300 ms, errors below 0.1%) before running.
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Demonstration
four load-over-time shapes (flat, ramp up, sharp jump, long flat).
Check your understanding
Which test finds a memory leak?
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A soak test.
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