Production Load Testing Baseline
Build a load-testing baseline with k6 or Locust. Identify and document the breaking point of a service.
k6 or LocustGrafanaDocker
About this project
Load testing is the SRE's most-cited and least-done practice. This project teaches the methodology: workload modeling, gradual ramp, identifying breaking points, and the writeup that informs capacity planning. Run it against a real service (yours or open-source). Find the breaking point. Document it.
Why build this in 2026?
AI workloads have unpredictable load patterns; load testing is more important than ever.
What you'll ship
- GitHub repo with k6 scripts
Load test results report
Capacity planning recommendations
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Skills you'll practice
monitoringdistributed systems