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Testing Client-Side Load Balancing Strategies

From Istio in Action by Christian Posta

This article shows how to use Fortio for load testing.

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Let’s imagine that we have a Fortio load-testing client ready to go, and we’re ready to explore the use case. We will use Fortio to send 1000 requests per second through 10 connections for 60 seconds. Fortio will track the latency numbers for…