Session

“The website is slow.” These four words can strike fear and dread in the heart of any developer. Load Testing is a tool for preparing your website for high demand, but designing a good load test is a fine art.

In this talk you’ll learn how to design and run load tests in Python on a web application to simulate and scale user traffic. The goal is to prepare for high demand and peak load by better understanding your application, where its bottlenecks are and where you can optimise without throwing more hardware at the problem. Even if you’re not planning for millions of users, a few bottlenecks and a surge in traffic can bring any Python web application to its knees. With the right knowledge and tools, you can model and simulate user traffic to prepare and optimise your app before the rush.