We've been successfully using locust for automated performance and load tests for a couple of years now. Locust is very flexible, the community is great and python-based test implementations are big win for engaging our quality engineers in test design and implementation.
Since our platform (Appian[0]) has a pretty heavy/complex client, we built a thin abstraction library [1] to empower both our quality engineers as well as some of our more advanced customers to write simple automated performance tests.
I and many others spent basically all day there yesterday. It's fun to look through all of these manuals. It takes a lot of concentration picking out the unique copies and leaving the many copies behind. Especially HP.. arg so, so many revisions of the same manual.
I keep wondering whether they still have something up their sleeve, but judging by them dropping the price, its not the case. This is the pinnacle of Mark Shuttleworth's "convergence" dream, I wonder whether he will carry the rest of this campaign if it looks like it will not get funded in the end? Also if it does fail, it is going to look mighty bad for Canonical.
not "that" cheap, my father currently pays 40 euros (~$50) for TV service and a 50/10 Mb/s connection in southern Germany. In comparison I pay $80 for 20/2 Mb/s Internet only.
For me to add basic cable TV it would go up to $120
I somewhat disagree with this article, at least from my experience. From my experience internet has always been cheaper, faster and more reliable than any time I have had a connecting on the US. I have mostly had experience with Kabel BW and Telekom.
For example in the US at the moment it costs me ~$80 for a reasonable cable connection from comcast 20Mb/s. I can expect my connection to go down for a few seconds/minutes about once a day and once or twice a month it'll be out for longer. I have had this and similar issues up and down the east coast in 5 different locations.
Maybe the experiences with Telekom in Frankfurt and with Kabel BW have been above the norm, but for I never/rarely had connectivity issues and it has always been much cheaper.
Since our platform (Appian[0]) has a pretty heavy/complex client, we built a thin abstraction library [1] to empower both our quality engineers as well as some of our more advanced customers to write simple automated performance tests.
[0] https://www.appian.com [1] https://pypi.org/project/appian-locust