Performance testing is an important part of getting your application production ready. You don't want to wait until you have a sudden spike in traffic to realise that your application can't handle the load. In this video I cover the difference types of performance testing and how to do them using k6. 📝 Video Transcript: 📨 Free Newsletter: — Join my free weekly newsletter for advice, technology and more ❤️ Support my channel: — Say thanks by buying me a coffee or becoming a loyal supporter. 🎓 Courses: — Like the way I teach? You might like my courses too! 👨‍💻 All Code: — Links to all the code for my YouTube videos can be found here. ⏳ CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - Installing k6 01:21 - Simple k6 test 02:30 - Test API 02:49 - Support me on Patreon 03:03 - Pick the right environment 03:48 - Load Test 06:41 - Stress Test 07:49 - Spike Test 08:35 - Soak Test 09:33 - Check out k6 docs 🔗 SOCIAL LINKS 🐘 Mastodon — @alex 💼 LinkedIn — ☁️ Bluesky — 🧑‍💻 WHO AM I I’m Alex, a Software Developer and YouTube working in the UK. I make videos about software development to help developers with the skills they need to be senior developers. As well as this YouTube Channel, I also write articles on my website ( ) as well as write a regular newsletter that contains some thoughts to help aspiring developers. #coding #programming #developer