How to use k6 for SRE (k6 Office Hours #90)

In this k6 Office Hours, our k6 Champion, Sarah Zipkin chats to the Grafana Labs Developer Advocates on how a Site Reliability Engineer uses k6 to test for reliability.
Sarah's article about SLO Math - / slo-math-demystified
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⏰ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
03:50 Why Sarah used k6 for SRE activities
06:37 Explaining SLA, SLO, and SLI
11:06 The link between SLOs and testing requirements
12:24 Defining what an SLO should be
15:03 Sarah's test environment setup for load testing
15:43 Testing in production
21:44 Figuring out your thresholds
32:05 Demo on how to use k6 to calculate SLOs
44:17 How to use k6 for capacity planning?
50:28 How is the development process in Veracode?
53:20 How to use k6 to test AWS resources?
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Links mentioned:
GrafanaCON 2023: grafana.com/about/events/graf...
EuroSTAR 2023: conference.eurostarsoftwarete...
ATD Open Air 2023: openair.agiletestingdays.com/...
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Contact Sarah:
LinkedIn: / sarah-zipkin-791573117
Site: / sazipkin
Contact Paul:
Twitter: / javaducky
Site: javaducky.com/
Contact Leandro:
Twitter: / srperf
Site: www.srperf.com/
Contact Nicole:
Twitter: / n_vanderhoeven
Site: nicolevanderhoeven.com
Contact Marie:
Twitter: / mcruzdrake
Site: www.testingwithmarie.com/
Learn more about k6:
Website: k6.io
Repo: github.com/grafana/k6

[@ahmedcasa3487]

thank you for this meeting

[@k6io]

We're glad you found this helpful! - Marie

[@tim.jallliveahappylife6622]

I agree she got swag. Love her so much 🥰. Please keep her coming back.

[@k6io]

She is awesome! We will definitely plan on more episodes with her 😊 - Marie

[@ahmedcasa3487]

In the majority we don't have the preprod with the same ressource and configuration like the production, same one hwo wants to get to load testing should be ready for those conditions

[@k6io]

Hi @ahmedcasa3487, we discussed this as part of the episode and have a timestamp for this which you can find here kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3O7q4iLfLd2g7M - Marie