Viewing the Output of Google Cloud Functions (GCF)
Explore how to deploy and test Google Cloud Functions using a simple load testing tool called Siege. Learn to interpret success rates under moderate traffic and use the Google Cloud dashboard for monitoring. Practice removing functions and related resources to maintain your environment clean.
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We’re about to see how our function behaves under a moderate load. We’ll use Siege for that. It can be described as a “poor man’s” load-testing and benchmark utility. While there are better tools out there, they’re usually more complicated. Since this will be a “quick and dirty” test of availability, Siege should do.
Note: We’ll run Siege as a Pod. Feel free to follow along if you have a Kubernetes cluster at your disposal. Otherwise, you can skip executing the commands ...