Alaptest
Alaptest, short for Adaptive Latency and Performance Testing, is a benchmarking framework designed to evaluate the performance characteristics of distributed systems under realistic and variable workloads. The project provides a language for defining test scenarios, a controlled load generator, and a results engine that aggregates latency, throughput, and reliability metrics.
A typical alaptest deployment consists of a scenario specification that describes the services to test, an
Key metrics tracked include latency at multiple percentiles (p50, p95, p99), throughput, error rate, and resource
Origin and development: alaptest emerged in the open-source software community in the early 2020s in response
Applications and users: it is used by site reliability engineers, platform teams, and developers to validate
Limitations and considerations: the usefulness of alaptest depends on how representative the workload models are; inaccurate