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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter

Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter
11 by rhl314 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Please meet Loadjitsu, my weekend project, years in the making. Over the years while building different apps and sites, I always felt that I need a modern load testing software.Tools like JMeter, ab are not very easy to use and it seems innovation in load testing which is a crucial part of any software release cycle has been ignored. This is my third attempt at making Loadjitsu, I am so glad that I can finaly release this. A bit more about the software 1. Powered by golang you can run load tests for tens of thousands of connections per second on very average hardware. 2. Cross platform, run it on Windows or Mac or host it on your linux machines 3. Lets you load test databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongodb out of the box. 4. Will keep adding more load testing targets in the future (even the more esoteric ones) I hope to open source Loadjitsu soon and let users contribute new targets. Hope this makes load testing fun again

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?

Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?
51 by mattwilsonn888 | 70 comments on Hacker News.
I hear what seems many a valid complaint about Google's conflicts of interest in managing Google Chrome and how it has down-stream effects on Mozilla and other web browsers. What exactly is keeping developers from making a fully featured open source web browser not at the mercy of Google or the browser's developers?

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New top story on Hacker News: Twilio suspended account because someone sent us a fraud text

New top story on Hacker News: Twilio suspended account because someone sent us a fraud text

Twilio suspended account because someone sent us a fraud text
29 by ChrisDutrow | 15 comments on Hacker News.
I have a very weird problem with Twilio. It seems like they have gotten so big where they have started acting in bad faith. I'm curious to find out what other entrepreneurs think of this situation, where a partner, once trusted, and for which technical foundation has been built upon, now has shown to be acting in bad faith. Every once in a while, some scammer will send a phishing text message to one of our phone numbers. Here is an example: """ Your Facebook account has been placed on hold for verification. To avoid account suspension, Please visit: https://ift.tt/335OQUE """ The message will be relayed to en employees cell phone as is what happens with all txt messages. Now Twilio thinks our account was hacked and someone is sending text phishing text messages from it. The latest time this happened, the account was immediately suspended by an automated system. They did not communicate to us that this happened or why it happened. I had to fill out a support ticket and wait about 3 hours for a response before I even knew what the problem when was. This happened at night, so no one knew there was even a problem until the next morning when business operations resumed and the phones didn't work. Its bad enough that they shut down the phone system for my entire company because of their mistake, but in order to get the system back online, I have to go through their ticketing process that is only through e-mail, where it takes hours or days to receive a response. If I want to speak with someone on the phone, which probably would have gotten the problem resolved more immediately, I have to pay $1,500 per month for their phone tech support. Obviously this is an unreasonable amount to pay. I don't need tech support, I just need someone to call, explain the situation to, and have them click a button. We pay them about $600 a month and have been working with them for over 10 years. I understand their profit margins might be thin? But are they really that thin? And if so, there should be a more reasonable phone option. I don't need to speak with an engineer, I just need to speak with someone who can click a button and unblock the account. Temporarily, I will re-program the system so that it does not forward text message content to my employees phone numbers. Which is fine. But my bigger problem is what do I do now? If they're willing to shut my system down without even giving me a number to call, what else are they going to do to me in the future? The way in which they have been so cavalier with me is a red flag. And if I'm being honest, it does make me angry how they are willing to so readily damage my company in such a profound way AUTOMATICALLY without giving me a way to talk with them. I understand they may have a big phishing problem and will need to use automated software to help, but it is very reckless to not have this counter-balanced with a reasonable way for legitimate customers to even contact them after the suspension. Are there other API-driven VOIP options that I should be considering bearing in mind that it would be expensive to re-write the software to work with another vendor? Or is there some way I should be looking to work things out with them? What do you guys think?

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Wednesday 5 January 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?

Ask HN: How to connect with fellow developers given few physical opportunities?
15 by erikpl | 10 comments on Hacker News.
Hello! I've been studying Computer Science for a few years, but due to changing my major as well as a lot of online classes I haven't been able to meet many fellow developers in my university, especially not those who share my interests within the field. And as far as I know, there aren't many physical community gatherings happening close to where I live. I would like to change that. So: those of you who have managed to successfully connect with other developers online, how did you do it? If anyone would like to chat or learn together, just send me a message here or email me at: erikpl (at) duck (dot) com. These days, my learning is focused on C (related to a compiler course) and video streaming (work-related).

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