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Siege vs wrk

A side-by-side look at Siege and wrk. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Siege

Siege

Development

Siege is an open source load testing and benchmarking utility for web applications. It allows developers to put load on a web server to test application stability and performance under heavy load.

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wrk

wrk

Development

wrk is an open-source HTTP benchmarking tool and load testing application. It is used to measure web server performance by simulating concurrent connections to the target server. wrk is lightweight, scalable, and can generate significant load even when run on a single multi-core CPU.

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