Load Testing
Resilience under realistic, abusive traffic.
We engineer load and stress scenarios that mirror the messy reality of production traffic — including the abuse patterns attackers use to amplify outages into incidents.
The brief
What this engagement is — and isn't.
Most load tests run a clean ramp and call it a day. Aegix engineers blend functional traffic, cache-buster patterns, slow-loris connections, and credential-stuffing replay against your staging stack — then correlate the failure modes with the security findings they expose.
Outcomes
What you walk away with.
Capacity headroom you can defend
We report sustained RPS, p95 latency, and error-budget burn at each ramp — not just a single peak number.
Abuse-aware testing
Bot, scrape, and credential-stuffing patterns surface where your rate limiting and WAF break before attackers do.
Cost & autoscale evidence
We measure infrastructure cost-per-RPS so capacity decisions stop being a guess.
Process
How an engagement runs.
- 01
Traffic modeling
We profile your real traffic — endpoints, geos, peak ratios — and build a closed-model workload that reflects it.
- 02
Baseline run
Steady-state runs establish current capacity, latency bands, and error budgets per service.
- 03
Stress & abuse
Ramps to failure, soak tests, abuse patterns (credential stuffing, cache busting, slow connections), and resilience drills.
- 04
Engineering hand-off
Failure modes, capacity charts, and remediation backlog delivered as PRs where we have repo access.
In scope
Coverage
- k6, Locust, Gatling, JMeter — your tooling or ours
- HTTP / HTTPS, WebSocket, gRPC, GraphQL
- Synthetic user journeys with real auth flows
- Background job and queue saturation
- Multi-region distributed load generation
You receive
Deliverables
- Traffic model and reusable test scripts
- Grafana / Datadog dashboard exports
- Capacity & cost-per-RPS report
- Resilience findings cross-mapped to security
- Remediation PRs (where repo access is granted)
Scope your load testing engagement.
One 45-minute scoping call. Named lead engineer assigned within one business day.