rakyll/hey
HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement
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hey is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application. hey was originally called boom and was influenced from Tarek Ziade's tool at tarekziade/boom. Using the same name was a mistake as it resulted in cases where binary name conflicts created confusion. To preserve the name for its original owner, we renamed this project to hey. macOS: hey runs provided number of requests in the provided concurrency…
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What this repository does
HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement
Repository facts
- Owner
- rakyll
- Primary language
- Go
- Stars
- 20,377
- Forks
- 1,310
- Open issues + pull requests
- 188
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2016-09-02T10:24:09.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-01-10T20:54:51.000Z
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