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You cannot load-test a real-time system the way you load-test an API

Load-testing a real-time system with a request-rate tool measures the wrong thing entirely. Here is what actually breaks — the restart nobody scripts, the leak a thirty-minute run cannot see, and the memory limit that fires before the number you were trying to measure.

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