README.md

Codebase for the blog post Simple load-testing with Apache Benchmark

Steps to run this project:

Clone this Git repository
Make sure you have ab available at your command line (part of Apache HTTPD)
Navigate to the folder load-testing-your-application
Launch the Spring Boot application with mvn spring-boot:run
(Optinal) Open Java VisualVM
Run ab -n 5000 -c 15 http://localhost:8080/persons and wait for the result/see within Java VisualVM how the application behaves