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Kürşat Aktaş
Kürşat Aktaş

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Testing the Performance of User Authentication Flow

Testing the performance of the backend API on high traffic is a must-have step before deploying it to production. We have to simulate the traffic as realistically as possible. This includes testing the endpoints that require authentication. In this article, we explained how to simulate hundreds of users that first get their JWT token from the Login endpoint and hits the private endpoints. We have used Ddosify Open Source Load Engine, so we didn't need to write any line of code.

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Testing the Performance of User Authentication Flow

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