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Alex Podelko wrote about the state of load testing in 2014. He recently did a load testing comparison to see what changed since then. And he realizes that the winds of change have changed it a lot. It’s titled “Are Times still Good for Load Testing?” and is an excellent read. Alex currently serves as a board director for the Computer Measurement Group (CMG), a worldwide organization of performance and capacity management professionals. Read his full bio. It’s crazy (butRead More →

What’s New With RedLine13? We’ve been very busy since the last time we’ve reached out to our subscribers. In the time that has passed we have: Added new test tracking features Updated region support for Amazon Web Services Added the ability to create tests based on Apache & NGINX WebServer log files Grown to over 2,000 active users  Have a combined total of over 27,000 tests ran with RedLine13. Brought on new staff members RedLine13 By TheRead More →

At RedLine13 we aim to offer our users a streamlined, informative, and reliable service that often times works in sync with other load testing platforms and services. From running simple URL tests to testing various API’s, we’ve got your back. As RedLine13 continues to offer some of the most competitive subscription pricing on the market (after all, we are “almost” free load testing), RedLine13 becomes a viable and appealing solution not only to be used independently,Read More →

BlazeMeter has become a real leader in making a professional version of Apache JMeter. We have heard through the grapevine that Blazemeter is trying to raise another $10M in addition to the original Series A of $6.5M and $1.2M of Seed funding. We wish them well because commercial backing can really help advance open source projects with additional development, and especially better PR, Marketing and Selling efforts. We have a track record of being a part ofRead More →

The BlazeMeter Chrome Extension is a very good Apache JMeter test plan recorder directly in the browser.  It is a great improvement over the default JMeter recorder, which is a bit old-school and acts as a proxy on your system. Though BlazeMeter has not open sourced or contributed this back to the community, they do allow you to export valid JMeter test plans. We appreciate this free-to-use recorder and can quickly demonstrate recording and playing back at scale on RedLine13.Read More →