Load & Stress Testing
Knowing your limits before your users find them.
What working with us on this looks like in practice.
Load & Stress Testing
We map the system before we touch it
Codebase, pipeline and risk assessed in week one.
Decisions written down, not assumed
Stack, boundaries and quality gates agreed up front.
Short sprints, working software
Every sprint ends with something running you can try.
Suites that gate every merge
Parallelised runs keep regression in minutes, not days.
You see what we see
Coverage, escape rate and MTTR on a live dashboard.
What this engagement covers.
We model realistic load scenarios based on your traffic data and business context, then execute load, stress, and spike tests to find where your system degrades. Results include specific throughput limits, bottleneck identification, and tuning recommendations.
Load scenarios built from production analytics, not synthetic guesses.
Sustained traffic at target concurrency with latency and error rate baselines.
Incremental load beyond expected peak to find the breaking point.
Sudden traffic bursts simulating viral events or campaign launches.
APM and infrastructure metrics correlated to isolate the constraint.
Specific configuration, query, and infrastructure changes to address findings.
Load and stress testing, answered.
What is the difference between load and stress testing?
Load testing measures behaviour at expected peak traffic. Stress testing deliberately pushes past it to find where the system breaks and whether it fails gracefully. You need both to size infrastructure with confidence.
When should we run load testing?
Before any event you can predict: a launch, a campaign, or a trading peak. Running it a week before leaves no time to act on findings, so we schedule far enough ahead that fixes can be made and retested.
What do you report?
Throughput and latency at each percentile, the point where response times degrade, the component that saturates first, and a sizing recommendation with the evidence behind it rather than a single pass or fail.
Make your next releaseuneventful.
Book a free 30-minute quality audit. We'll review your stack and show you exactly where the risk is hiding, no pitch deck required.