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title: "Discussion on \"Building a Reusable Load-Test Environment for a Messenger Service — Make-based IaC, Observability, and Auth Seeding\" | Hashnode"
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# [Building a Reusable Load-Test Environment for a Messenger Service — Make-based IaC, Observability, and Auth Seeding](https://beckybuilds.hashnode.dev/building-a-reusable-load-test-environment-for-a-messenger-service-make-based-iac-observability-and-auth-seeding?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A reproducible 7-VM clone of production, k6 + a Go WebSocket receiver, and the actual TPS our send API breaks at.

May 11 · 15 min read · beckybuilds.hashnode.dev  
Updated Jul 28  
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I build real-time messaging infrastructure that handles 100K concurrent connections — and write about what breaks along the way.

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