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2025

Performance-Testing Your Web Application With Bombardier

To figure out if our application can handle a certain load, we need a way to produce that load. That is the purpose of Bombardier, a powerful HTTP benchmarking tool designed to test the performance of web servers. Written in Go, it leverages the fast and efficient fasthttp library, making it an excellent choice to flood a web server with requests.

Introduction to Performance Testing for Web Applications

In the world of web development, performance testing often feels like an afterthought, much like security and maintainability. We are going to do that later – a later that never appears.

However, just as maintainable code is crucial for long-term success, performance testing is essential to ensure that our web applications are robust, responsive, and ready to handle real-world demands.