Heather Thacker

Heather Thacker

Gatling
Heather is a Developer Advocate at Gatling where she enjoys building content and community around making performance testing approachable and essential to teams. Her perspective is shaped by four years as a software developer followed by two years advocating for DevOps best practices. She’s an international speaker that enjoys comparing theory with reality of software development lifecycles, using practical examples and analogies. Her goal is to give engineers different perspectives that will build the confidence they need to make performance a core part of their workflow.
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Heather Thacker
Heather Thacker
Gatling

Speed, Stress, and Soak: Performance Testing Without the Pain

This talk demystifies performance testing by explaining key types—load, stress, spike, soak, and capacity testing—using relatable analogies. It highlights each test's purpose, common pitfalls, and gui...
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