comparing k6, gatling and jmeter

K6 was released on GitHub not long ago in 2017 and since then has gained increasing popularity. Five years before then, in 2012, Gatling was released and also had very fast growth. You can see how active they have both become with the number of stack overflow questions and GitHub forks. There are some clear differences between the K6 and Gatling. K6 is JavaScript-based and Gatling is Scala-based. K6 is developer-centric and Gatling is not. ButRead More →

MSD ease of using RedLine13

Senior Automation Engineer Eldad Uzman compares RedLine13 to BlazeMeter and setting up their own load test environment at MSD Animal Health Intelligence Technology Labs and the ease of using RedLine13. He spoke at the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting. A 73 second video of the conversation has been posted on RedLine13’s YouTube channel. Read more about what other RedLine13 customers said about why they chose RedLine13 and how they’re using it. You can try RedLine13 for free.Read More →

Moving from BlazeMeter was one part of a company’s plans to save money and improve security. Renaissance fully bought into shift left. They have 400 developers and one performance engineer with the developers doing the load testing. Read more about shift left testing. This was part of their plan to save money by moving from traditional data centers to AWS. They ran a comprehensive proof of concept with RedLine13 and then chose RedLine13. RedLine13 made itRead More →

Performance test automation usually refers to CI/CD. And CI/CD is an important component, but there is much more. Performance test automation is about anything that reduces manual effort to run tests, to pass information, to communicate, etc. Some companies have even created test automation groups to lead the way for their companies in this important area. We’ll get to that at the end. We’ll look at some key areas where RedLine13 supports performance test automation. CI/CDRead More →

RedLine13 Customers

At the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board, there were representatives from RedLine13 customers MSD, ACT, HBO Latin America, University of California and more, who spoke about how load testing is working at their organizations. Here are some of the highlights of RedLine13 customers and our guest speaker Alexander Podelko. MSD Animal Health Intelligence Technology Labs talked about the ease of using RedLine13. ACT talked about what they like about RedLine13 when they were looking for aRead More →

Moved to RedLine13

We feel like you guys really focus on what is core and essential for performance testing, without all the glitter on top, which is awesome. Heath Meyer, ACT Lead Software Engineer at the RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board Listen to Heath on the RedLine13 YouTube channel talk about RedLine13 with questions from co-founder Bob Bickel at the first RedLine13 Customer Advisory Board meeting, which was held virtually. They looked into BlazeMeter alternatives, mainly because of cost. ACTRead More →

What can you expect from RedLine13 in 2021? Some things will change for our customers while we are happy to say that other things won’t. RedLine13 will still be a low cost, open source, cloud-based load testing platform. How low cost? RedLine13 users have run over 1.2 million hours of RedLine13 load tests at a cost of about 26 cents per hour. That will not change in 2021. What do our customers like about RedLine13? WeRead More →

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 →