Performance Testing for Serverless Architecture (AWS)

Introduction

This document provides a brief description of how JMETER can be used with a server-less architecture like AWS. This can be used to evaluate the read/write capacity of the underlying DB, to benchmark the load an application can survive with.

What are AWS Lambdas?

The code written is deployed to AWS lamba over the cloud with one or more lambda functions. A compute service runs the code on our behalf.

Go ServerLess with Firebase cloud functions

With announcement of cloud functions beta at Google cloud next 2017 event, Google has added one of the highly requested features in the firebase suite. This is one major step from Google in making firebase serverless. In this post, we will see some of the capabilities, pros and cons, setup and deployment of firebase cloud functions. Google IO is just days away and knowing about firebase is surely going to help in understanding the upcoming firebase features.