Stress Testing

This walks you through pushing systems past their limits to find where they break. It includes k6 and JMeter examples with progressive load patterns that ramp from normal traffic up to breaking points, plus spike testing and soak testing variants. The reference guides cover auto-scaling validation and recovery behavior, which matters more than the breaking point itself. One thing I appreciate is the explicit focus on gradual recovery stages and monitoring during cooldown, since how a system comes back up tells you as much as how it falls over. Good for capacity planning before launch or validating that your infrastructure actually scales like you think it does.