“We spun up a bunch of little go processes that would each establish a WebSocket connection and run through a series of API requests that made it look like they were actual clients.”
The Pragmatic Engineer · Scaling Slack and GitHub with Maude Lemaire
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replaced the headless Chrome approach with many small Go processes that each opened a WebSocket connection and ran API request sequences to simulate clients
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