Load testing Socket.IO servers using msgpack-parser with Gatling

In this post I will show how we can connect with Gatling to a Socket.IO server which uses a custom parser using the MessagePack serialization format. This is the second post about Socket.IO testing with Gatling. In the first post: Load testing Socket IO with Gatling I showed an example of connecting to a Socket.IO server using the default parser which uses text messages. What is MessagePack? MessagePack is a binary serialization format....

November 18, 2023 · 7 min · Dimitris Dranidis