Shreya Ramesh

2 articles by Shreya Ramesh.

Continuous Load Testing

Building load test infrastructure is tricky and poses many questions. How can we identify performance regressions in newly deployed builds, given the overhead of spinning up test clients? To gather the most representative results, should we load test at our peak hours or when there’s a lull? How do we incentivize engineers to invest time…

SRShreya Ramesh·April 29, 2022Performance

Load Testing with Koi Pond

Complex systems are difficult to reason about at scale; we often can’t accurately extrapolate system behavior and performance, so we need to derive that data empirically. We use load testing to do just that: find the limits of our systems and weed out bugs at a large scale in a controlled environment. Slack is a…

SRShreya Ramesh·April 23, 2021Performance