My test suite was green. My detector was wrong.Correction, 11 August 2026. The figures below were wrong when first published. My registry harvester paginated over overlapping pages and returned the same servers repeatedly, so I counted 467 servers23JKAug 10 · 9 min readsravanvidiyala.com
Isolate by dependency, not by loadThe standard load-testing playbook phases along a single axis: traffic volume. Start with a smoke test to confirm the system runs under minimal load. Ramp to a load test to find normal operating perfoAug 9 · 7 min readsravanvidiyala.com
You can't load-test an LLM agent with a dumb mockThe first thing I tried was the obvious thing: stand up a fake OpenAI endpoint that returns a hardcoded response, point the agent at it, and ramp up concurrent users. Mock the expensive dependency, is1Jun 4 · 5 min readsravanvidiyala.com
