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Discover how Gatling brings test-as-code to performance testing with a powerful DSL, CI/CD integration, and scalable load testing tools.

Discover how shift-right testing with real load metrics uncovers production issues traditional tests miss. Learn best practices, risks, and observability to enhance performance with Gatling.

Learn GitOps: the game-changing approach that uses Git to automate infrastructure deployments. From disaster recovery to enterprise success stories.

Industry-proven performance testing maturity guide. Build systematic processes that prevent costly outages and deliver superior user experiences.

Learn about Transport Layer Security (TLS) and how it can negatively affect your application response times. Plus, optimization strategies.

Reddit engineers reveal what they truly value in performance testing tools—insights on Gatling, K6, JMeter, and more, with themes, quotes, and charts.

Learn the common patterns for handling user credentials in your Gatling scripts when creating performance or stress tests.

Learn how DevPerfOps brings performance testing into every commit. Discover best practices with Gatling to automate load tests in CI/CD, integrate observability, and make performance part of your development DNA.

Discover the difference between QA and QE. Learn how proactive quality engineering, performance testing, and AI help teams prevent defects and ship faster.

Learn how GreenOps integrates sustainability into your SDLC. Discover tools, implementation strategies, and benefits that reduce costs while cutting carbon emissions.

Learn why 64% of IoT devices fail and discover proven testing strategies to ensure your connected devices perform reliably under real-world conditions.

Load testing simulates expected user traffic; performance testing covers overall system behavior like speed, scalability, and stability under any load.

Load testing puts your web app under a lot of stress in order to unveil its weaknesses. We show you how to do it with Gatling.

Downtime costs $9,000/minute. Learn the cost of downtime + 5 strategies to prevent hefty losses. Calculate your risk with our interactive calculator.

Learn how to use Gatling, TestContainers, and Docker for effective load testing and boost your app's performance.

Why perform load tests? Load testing objectives are essential for defining your tests and optimizing your website. Find the answers here.

Learn the definition and benefits of shift left testing, then how to implement a shift left testing strategy today in your software project with Gatling.

Add Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications to your Gatling Enterprise Cloud account to always know when your test is finished.

Are you looking at a Gatling Test Report for the first time and feeling overwhelmed? Or perhaps you’ve been using it for a while without reaaaally understanding everything on there?

Combine the convenience of Gatling Enterprise Cloud and the security of self-hosting your infrastructure with Private Packages.

Discover the common causes of application performance bottlenecks and steps to take to identify, resolve, and avoid each type of bottleneck with Gatling.

Learn how to use Gatling and Koyeb to deploy and load test your AI application.

Seamlessly integrate Postman Collections with Gatling to unlock advanced load testing capabilities. Reuse collections effortlessly for performance testing!

With heavy traffic comes the probability of high crashes. Start quick load testing your website with Gatling and manage your sales!

Discover 10 critical load testing metrics: Error rate, P95/P99 response times, CPU usage, memory leaks and more. Stop production fires before they start.

Load testing simulates expected user traffic; performance testing covers overall system behavior like speed, scalability, and stability under any load.

Platform engineering creates a self-service developer platform that bakes in CI/CD, infra, and Gatling load tests, letting teams ship faster and safer.

We are very proud to announce to our +10,000 cloud users the release of Private Locations! We hope you will like it!

In October, 2021 Gatling expanded its offer from just a Scala API to include a Java API as well. The additional API now lets developers choose to script using Java, Kotlin, or Scala.

Gatling introduces a new no-code test builder for effortless simulations, making it quick and efficient to optimize website performance.

Microservices load testing ensures your application meets performance requirements in production. Learn about microservices load testing in this article.

Learn the important factors in adapting your load testing strategy for the HTTP/2 protocol.

We’re going to be looking at some of the questions that pertain to what I like to call Gatling Myths. Let’s get the truth out of it!

Learn how to migrate your load tests from the Gatling bundle to the Gradle build tool, in less than 5 minutes.

Learn how to migrate your load tests from the Gatling bundle to the Maven build tool, in less than 5 minutes.

Learn how MQTT performance evaluation can be reached with Gatling’s MQTT protocol, leveraging Gatling as a tool for testing your MQTT broker.

Load test an LLM API using Gatling. Dive into our case study now. Read more on the Gatling Blog!

Load testing Docker containers proves your application performs optimally when containerized - learn why it matters in this article.

Latency percentiles are a fundamental metric used for load testing analysis. This article explains how to understand and utilize them.

HTTP/2 introduces a new protocol functionality and differs from HTTP/1.1. Learn about how the differences can enhance your application performance.

Discover what projects can benefit from load testing and how to spread the adoption of Gatling from your project across your organization.

In this step-by-step guide, you’ll find all you need to Load Test a Kafka cluster with Gatling Cloud.

We are excited to announce our new GitHub Actions integration plugin! You can now run your Gatling Enterprise simulations from GitHub Actions.

Load testing is essential for any application that you intend to scale. When should testing take place though?

Learn how background processes, or ghost loads, affect your application and how load testing can enhance your performance before peak holiday traffic.

Interested in learning about the advanced reporting on Gatling Enterprise Cloud? Here's everything you need to know.

You can now stream your load test metrics directly into Datadog to monitor performance in real time, alongside your production data.

Learn how to generate and use fake data in Gatling.

DevOps focuses on speed and collaboration; DevSecOps adds security at every stage of the development and deployment pipeline. Include testing with Gatling.

Gatling's new JavaScript and TypeScript SDK doubles developer accessibility for load testing. Write and run tests in your preferred language with Gatling.

This article describes common causes for website downtime and strategies to resolve or prevent these causes from negatively impacting your website uptime.

Load test your gRPC app with Gatling & Qdrant Free Tier! Follow our step-by-step guide to analyze performance, optimize queries, and scale efficiently.

Whatever stage you are at with the load testing of your web application, being aware of best practices in the industry can greatly enhance your testing efforts.

Java 21 is now available. Discover the key features for Java developers, when Gatling will drop Java8 support, and how we will continue to support Java users.

Discover Gatling's latest updates to our no-code test builder, enabling faster, more complex load testing scenarios. Enhance your testing efficiency today!

Discover Gatling 3.11's latest features, including a new Maven-based bundle, updated plugins, and enhanced WebSocket/SSE support.

Improve software development processes. Follow these CI/CD best practices to make your DevOps team’s pipeline smooth and effective.

Explore Gatling's new Configuration as Code for Enterprise, streamlining package and simulation management. Learn more in our latest blog post.

Get to know our New Gatling Enterprise Cloud Feature: Private locations. It allows you to use your own locally hosted load generators to produce the simulated traffic that occurs during a Gatling sim

Learn what gRPC is and how to use Gatling to load test it.

Discover the essential 5 steps to develop a robust load testing strategy for your software applications.

In a continuous delivery strategy, load tests are used to ensure the application can handle the expected traffic. Time to build your own!

Discover why load testing matters, how to shift left, and how Gatling helps teams scale performance testing across CI/CD pipelines and user loads.

Discover the latest website crashes, identify the issues, the consequencesm and see what you can learn from them to help you avoid downtime with Gatling.

SDLC is the framework for building software. Involves planning, design, dev, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Learn why 81% of teams fail and how not to.

Learn the difference between open and closed workload models and how to choose the right model for your application.

What are the challenges that can affect all web based enterprises and some of the advantages that can be gained through load testing.

Load testing has now become an important part of the CI/CD process. Here are some useful tools to integrate load testing into your CI/CD strategy.