High-Scale Load Testing with Grafana k6 | Performance Testing 100K users

🚀 What happens when your site suddenly goes viral? A Shark Tank feature, a social media spike, or a high-demand ticket launch can bring massive traffic — and most systems fail on first contact with production load. In this talk, learn how to prepare your applications for real-world traffic at scale using open-source load testing tools like Grafana k6. 🔍 What You’ll Learn: How to design high-scale load tests for 10k–100k+ concurrent users Mimicking real user behavior instead of synthetic traffic Building scalable load-testing infrastructure Integrating load tests into your CI/CD pipeline Real-world case studies from production systems Perfect for DevOps engineers, SREs, performance testers, and developers who want confidence that their systems will survive traffic spikes before they happen. 🎥 Watch now and make sure your site doesn’t fail when it matters most. #LoadTesting #GrafanaK6 #PerformanceTesting #Scalability #DevOps #SRE #TrafficSpikes #StressTesting #perfology #loadtesting #devops #programming #sre #scalability #performancetesting #stress #marvel Timestamps Introduction to Load Testing (0:00-1:04) Case Study 1: Rapper's Ugly Sweater and Website Crash (1:05-4:12) Reasons for Site Failure Under Load (4:13-5:11) Case Study 2: Festival Ticket Sales and Load Testing Preparation (5:16-7:35) Traditional Load Testing Tools: Apache Bench (and its shortcomings) (7:37-8:50) Introducing Grafana K6: Realistic Load Testing (8:50-10:43) Defining Realistic Load Test Scenarios (Spike Tests) (10:56-15:54) Mimicking User Behavior and Core Web Vitals (15:59-19:51) Combining Protocol and Browser-Based Tests (19:52-22:09) Online vs. Offline Testing Considerations (22:14-23:30) Sizing Your Testing Environment (23:37-25:47) Analyzing K6 Test Results (25:47-28:37) Important Service Announcement: Get Permission for Load Tests (28:38-29:32) Q&A and Closing Remarks (29:35-31:02)