BlazeMeter markets a commercial, self-service
load testing platform as a service (PaaS), which is compatible with
open-source
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Apache JMeter, the performance testing framework from the
Apache Software Foundation
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.
BlazeMeter was founded in 2011, and was acquired by
CA Technologies in 2016. In 2021, it was acquired by
Perforce.
Company
In December 2011, BlazeMeter announced raising $1.2 million financing from
YL Ventures
YL Ventures is an American-Israeli venture capital firm that specializes in seed stage cybersecurity investments.
Investment Firm
YL Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm led by managing partner Yoav Leitersdorf, who founded the firm w ...
.
BlazeMeter provides developers with tools using the
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that provide mobile, web application, website, web-service or database testing that can simulate thousands of users.
visiting a website simultaneously
BlazeMeter can be extended with a series of custom
plug-in
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* Plug-in (computing) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.
** Audio plug-in, adds audio signal processing features
** Photoshop plugin, a piece of softwar ...
s. BlazeMeter provides a free plugin to JMeter,
a
Drupal
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module,
and a Jenkins CI plugin and
Vegeta program
for load testing.
In 2012, BlazeMeter was selected by CRN as a "Emerging Cloud Computing Vendor" for 2012
and "One of the 25 Coolest Emerging Vendors For 2012" by CRN and UBM Channel.
In August 2012, BlazeMeter announced a partnership with
Acquia a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source
Drupal
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content management system.
In May 2013, BlazeMeter was named one of the top testing tools by Dr. Dobbs 'Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools.'
The company was acquired by CA Technologies in September 2016.
In 2021, it was acquired by
Perforce.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.blazemeter.com/
Drupal
Load testing tools