{"id":42481,"date":"2020-12-18T09:44:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdtimes.com\/?p=42481"},"modified":"2020-12-18T09:44:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:44:59","slug":"sd-times-open-source-project-of-the-week-vhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdtimes.com\/open-source\/sd-times-open-source-project-of-the-week-vhs\/","title":{"rendered":"SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: VHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Performance testing company Stormforge has launched a new open-source project designed to improve and advance application performance and optimization test creation. The project, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rename-this\/vhs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VHS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, records live traffic to test performance against \u201creality instead of just an educated guess,\u201d Noah Abrahams, open source advocate at StormForge, explained in a post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVHS started as a project that filled a need related to our performance testing and optimization portfolio, namely, accurate load generation,\u201d Abrahams said. \u201cOur mission as a company is to extend the concept of application performance from being a reactive mindset focused on operations teams, to a proactive, automatic and continuous process that includes and empowers the application developers themselves. Part of that mission is ensuring that developers in the community are not only aware that proactive solutions are available to them, but that they\u2019re able to contribute and help build tomorrow\u2019s application performance solutions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the company, current methods for recording and replaying app traffic did not provide clear enough or precise results. VHS aims to provide load generational aligned with actual live production to better guarantee performance testing and forecasted traffic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of the community-driven project initiative, StormForge is asking the open-source community to help <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rename-this\/vhs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rename the project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Q1 of 2021. \u201cThe name VHS wouldn\u2019t be particularly easy to find in a Google search, anyway, and the acronym is already taken in most places that matter, so the rename will be happening sooner rather than later,\u201d Abrahams wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance testing company Stormforge has launched a new open-source project designed to improve and advance application performance and optimization test creation. 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