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</html><description>From the Open Source Load Testing presentation&#xA0;http://www.slideshare.net/richardfriedman/open-source-load-testing Slide #1 Common Sense of Load Testing You will notice the presentation does not&#xA0;start with &#x2018;Why we need or What is&#xA0;load testing?&#x201D;. In this day and age we have had too many public examples of sites, products, and APIs falling down because of scaling issues. Every day you can still find an article to point out &#x2013; Thou Shalt Load Test. We make the assumption you are reading thisRead More &rarr;</description><thumbnail_url>https://www.redline13.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/OSLT_CommonSense.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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