Blitz (software)

Blitz is a cloud-based load- and performance-testing service (SaaS) that allows developers to "rush" (load test) a Web app or Web API with up to 200,000 concurrent users within seconds from multiple points of presence around the world.[1] The tool allows users to test web applications, websites, and APIs to identify infrastructure weaknesses.

Blitz
Private
IndustrySoftware
Founded2003
DefunctOctober 1, 2018 (2018-10-01)
HeadquartersSunnyvale, California, U.S.
ProductsSoftware Performance testing
Websiteblitz.io

Capabilities

Blitz is a load-testing tool from the cloud to the cloud. Blitz customers tend to be application and website developers who use the service throughout the iterative build process of mobile applications, websites, and APIs.[2]

Blitz provides developers with several capabilities throughout the build process:

  • Load testing for Web apps and APIs to test scalability[3]
  • Integration with PaaS providers, continuous integration tools, and browsers
  • Scales testing up to 50,000 simultaneous virtual users on a pay-per-test model[4]
  • Cloud-based, no client to install. However, this means it is unable to test applications behind firewalls or otherwise protected from the Internet.

Company information

Blitz used to be a service from Mu Dynamics, which was acquired[5] in 2012 by UK-based technology firm Spirent Communications.

gollark: 1999 *may* be before this was introduced.
gollark: The unified shader model is basically where instead of separate vertex and fragment and whatever else shaders, you just have a bunch of general purpose shader cores which, as it turns out, can also do computation things™.
gollark: It probably can't run OpenCL because, again, unified shader model.
gollark: * have
gollark: I doubt it, it's probably too old to use unified shaders.

References
  1. "Featured Engineer: Interview with Kowsik Guruswamy". EEWeb. 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2012-09-28.
  2. "Load Test Your Server with Blitz.io". Webmaster-Source. 2012-08-28. Retrieved 2012-09-28.
  3. "Blitz.io Makes Load Testing Fun". Bigdinosaur. 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
  4. Singh, Harpreet (2012-08-22). "Blitz.io as CloudBees verified solution". DeveloperResources. Archived from the original on 2013-01-27. Retrieved 2012-09-28.
  5. Buckley, Sean (2012-04-20). "Spirent sharpens cloud strategy by purchasing Mu Dynamics for $40M". FierceTelecom. Retrieved 2012-09-27.

See also
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