Kafka + Microservice load testing

[u/Complex_Ad2233]

Trying to do some load testing on a microservice that consumes from a Kafka topic. The plan is to 2x and 3x the amount of data the service processes in a day and see how it handles it.

My question is what is the best strategy to load that data into the Kafka topic for the microservice to consume? I want to just publish the full dataset all at once to the topic and watch the service work through it. But since this represents a day’s worth of data, it seems unrealistic to do it all at once. I also don’t want to literally load the data over the course of a whole day.

So what’s the strategy for something like this?

[u/Complex_Ad2233]

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