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Loadster is a cloud-based load testing and synthetic monitoring platform for engineers who want to know how their applications behave under real traffic.
Tests run with three types of bots: Protocol Bots for HTTP testing, headless Browser Bots that render full pages and execute JavaScript in real Chrome browsers, and Playwright bots for when you want to use Playwright JS directly.
Loadster scripts can be recorded from Chrome or Firefox with the Loadster Recorder extension, edited in a built-in editor with variables, datasets, and shared includes, and then replayed from multiple cloud regions.
Each test run returns detailed page timings (TTFB, FCP, LCP, CLS, etc) alongside resource waterfalls, screenshots, and full traces you can step through in a self-hosted trace viewer. Tests scale from a handful of virtual users (bots) to hundreds of thousands across distributed cloud engines without you provisioning anything.
The same scripts can be set up as monitors that run on a schedule from chosen regions. Notification policies route incidents to email, SMS, voice, or integrations like Slack and PagerDuty. Projects, roles, and shared test history keep teams aligned on what passed, what failed, and what changed.
Pricing is usage-based via Loadster Fuel, with 50 free units on sign-up and no credit card to start.
DEV.to LoadsterAs a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.
However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.
My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).
Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.
Based on our record, DEV.to seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 649 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Python -m pip install unlimited-search Unlimited-search read https://dev.to --max-content-chars 1500. - Source: dev.to / about 16 hours ago
While developing Wasp, a JS full-stack framework, we keep researching other ecosystems (Rails, Laravel, Django, etc.) and finding ways how they figured out developer productivity. We kept finding these reusable legos, so we gave them a name: "full-stack modules". Let's define what we mean by that exactly. - Source: dev.to / 9 days ago
If you want to see where your site sits in this distribution, run an audit โ it takes about 12 seconds. - Source: dev.to / 12 days ago
Getting a first thing online is a milestone worth not reaching alone. A MLH hackathon is the perfect place to try: build, break, and deploy alongside other people over a weekend. And DEV is always here for the other parts, open all the time, where a new coder can post the project, ask for feedback, and read how someone else cleared the same hurdle. - Source: dev.to / 13 days ago
Same idea. Four rewrites. Four character budgets. Four hashtag policies. Four mental models of an algorithm I do not control and cannot see. And that is before you reach Mastodon, Threads, Reddit, a newsletter, dev.to, and whatever launched this quarter. - Source: dev.to / 15 days ago
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