Viewing the Output of Google Cloud Functions (GCF)

We’re about to see how our function behaves under a moderate load. We’ll use Siege for that. It can be described as a “poor man’s” load-testing and benchmark utility. While there are better tools out there, they’re usually more complicated. Since this will be a “quick and dirty” test of availability, Siege should do.

Note: We’ll run Siege as a Pod. Feel free to follow along if you have a Kubernetes cluster at your disposal. Otherwise, you can skip executing the commands that follow and observe the results we present.

We’ll be sending one thousand concurrent requests in thirty seconds.