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27th October 2010 - Link Blog

Bees with machine guns! Low-cost, distributed load-testing using EC2. Great name for a useful project—Bees with machine guns is a Fabric script which fires up a bunch of EC2 instances, uses them to load test a website and then spins them back down again.

Posted 27th October 2010 at 11:04 pm

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