Loadbalancers

Perf Tests

• https://github.com/NickMRamirez/Proxy-Benchmarks
• https://www.loggly.com/blog/benchmarking-5-popular-load-balancers-nginx-haproxy-envoy-traefik-and-alb/

Migrations

• https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/how-we-migrated-dropbox-from-nginx-to-envoy

Repsonces

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30437158

haproxy

• https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/performance-tuning-haproxy
• https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html

HTTP(S) Performance Testing Tools

Apache Benchmark Tool

apt-get install apache2-utils
ab -c 2500 -n 5000 https://demo.uvoo.io/

ddosify

• https://github.com/ddosify/ddosify ddosify -n 30000 -d 3 -t https://demo.example.com

Simple k8s metrics

kubectl top node/pod

CPU(cores)
338m means 338 millicpu. 1000m is equal to 1 CPU, hence 338m means 33.8% of 1 CPU.
CPU%
It is displayed only for nodes, and it stands for the total CPU usage percentage of that node.
Memory
Memory being used by that node
Memory%
It is also displayed only for nodes, and it stands for total memory usage percentage of that node.