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How would you organize load testing for an online store ahead of Black Friday?

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This checks whether a senior engineer can turn load testing into a managed project: a justified load forecast, a realistic profile, success criteria set in advance through SLOs, and an iterative cycle of finding bottlenecks with time to spare. Running JMeter with "lots of users" isn't enough for that.

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