Load Testing
Load Testing, Video Games,
Load Testing in Gaming: Scaling for Millions Without Breaking a Sweat
Why Load Testing Can Make or Break a Game Launch In today’s gaming landscape, success can be a double-edged sword. When a title goes viral or spikes in popularity, servers get hammered, systems creak, and crashes aren’t just possible – they’re inevitable without preparation. Players expect a flawless experience from minute one. They won’t tolerate lag, downtime, or broken matchmaking. ...
1 May 2025
Load Testing, Video Games,
What Load Testing Solution is right for you?
What Load Testing Solution Is Right for You? Our goal for each and every client is a stable and secure release. Whether a game, a big data platform, or a website, we want you to be happy and confident in the knowledge that your product will launch without vulnerabilities or stability issues. For the stability side of our work, we ...
1 February 2025
Load Testing,
Know Your Load Testing Services: DDoS Testing vs Stress Testing
In a recent engagement where we delivered our DDoS testing service, we encountered the question of DDoS testing versus Stress testing. There was some confusion, and we’ve seen it before, where DDoS and stress tests are seen as the same thing under two different names. Let’s jump into these two services and define them so you can see what ...
16 October 2024
Load Testing, Video Games,
Top 3 Common Load Testing Issues
There are a number of issues that we would often see across any of our load testing engagement but after a brief survey of our load tests, we’ve narrowed it down to just three. All of these issues, like any load testing issue, is a scalability one. They are classed on severity based on how users are impacted and how ...
3 September 2024
Load Testing, Penetration Testing, Video Games,
Cybersecurity and Load Testing: Evolving Gaming Landscape in 2024 & 2025
There’s been some phenomenal evolutions and changes in the gaming landscape over the past five to ten years. Huge leaps in technology, the rise of photorealism, the rise of the battle royale and the live service model. With all of these, the gaming industry has flourished and grown exponentially. As experts in cybersecurity and load testing, we watched the rising ...
1 August 2024
Load Testing,
Holistic Load Testing with Cyrex Swam
We’ve talked at length about what load testing is and our industry-leading propriety tool for load testing, Cyrex Swarm (which is currently in a beta for our partners!). Our engagements and work with load testing has evolved significantly, improving and growing to where it is now. We’ve deployed our testing technology to traditional products and even blockchain products countless times. ...
19 October 2023
Load Testing,
Working with Cyrex: What is Load Testing?
Alongside penetration testing and digital safety, it’s just as important to ensure that your application and game can handle the level of traffic you expect and more. That’s where our gold-standard load testing services come into play. Load Testing Explained Load testing services are an array of services that are used to determine how well your system or game ...
14 September 2023
Development, Load Testing, News, Security,
Looking Back at 8 Years of Cyrex
What a journey it has been for Cyrex, it scarcely feels like eight years at all! We’ve come a long way, from a small team starting in college, to a global presence working with some of the biggest names. Our growth has been so much over these years that we know, all those years ago, we couldn’t have dreamed of ...
30 August 2023
Case Study, Load Testing,
Cyrex Swarm vs Apache JMeter
As a new piece of technology on the scene, we’ve made some big claims! Of course, Cyrex Swarm has been utilized in every load testing engagement since its completion several years ago. Now that it has entered beta, and we have a lot of requests to test it out, we think now would be a good time to compare Cyrex ...
15 June 2023