Follow along with this three-part series as Mike Pennisi shows you how to stress-test your Node.js application. In part three, Mike shows you how to use AWS to execute distributed stress tests. If you haven’t already, watch Preparing a Server and Configuring AWS first.

Checkout Mike’s realtime Node.js blog posts on building a server, stress testing procedure, and analysis.

Tools:

• Bees with Machine Guns
• htop – install with sudo apt-get install htop
• sar – install with sudo apt-get install sysstat