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I’ve been looking for something just like this. And thinking of writing my own just like you ;) I’m new to the whole web app area, coming from desktop: how would you best explain or pitch this to a newbie who understands the need but that’s about it?

Can it be used for once-off testing (per deployment we can handle n thousand connections / hour) or can it track performance and response speed so you can see how your servers are doing over time?

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So BuzzBench can basically be a health check for your web app, it hammers your endpoints with requests to see if they hold up under pressure.

You can definitely use it for both quick "will this break under load" tests before deploying, and to track performance over time so you can catch when things start getting sluggish.

The cool part is you can run tests from pretty much anywhere, your laptop, your CI pipeline, different regions - so you get realistic results rather than some theoretical benchmark.

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