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Don't get me wrong, I am only annoyed because of the wonderful job you guys do... it seems like such a glaring omission... because IMHO, it is where stuff often actually "falls apart" in real life... and is some of the most useful information you can possibly have.

The "trapped between APIs" scenario is one of the concurrency stressing ones, as is slow clients with large content, as is websockets. As you tests show, A LOT of frameworks do a damned fine job with serving lots of requests quickly -- I think concurrency is a far more interesting differentiator.

Glad to see that most of what I want is "on the list": 11, 12, 15, 19. Would be nice to see an additional "slow clients" test with large content -- where the limit is how fast the clients can receive server data... meaning, the limit on the server is how many clients they can stack up and handle concurrently.




Great! Please feel free to join in the discussion about future test types on the GitHub issue if you want!

Based on your comment and some others, I am presently thinking we'll want to bump up the priority of adding new tests in the upcoming rounds. Tentatively, getting the caching test in is low-hanging fruit and may be next up. But the external API test is probably next after that.




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