Today, I wanted to run a quick and dirty load test on one of my applications. One of the alternative that most of the developers are aware of is Apache Benchmark(or ab). For some reason, ab does not work on my mac book because of Connection reset by peer errors. So, I looked around and found Siege. It is very similar to ab and works well on mac.
To test the GET request, you would run
siege http://example.com/rest/todos/3 -c 100 -r 100
To test the POST request, you would run
siege -H 'Content-Type:application/json' "http://example.com/rest/todos POST < ./data.json" -c 10 -r 1000
Shekhar Gulati 