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by vedant_ag 1181 days ago
> 2. Requests don't happen in a vacuum. They likely have data dependencies on prior requests. I recommend some way of sampling sessions rather than individual requests. Replaying the 3rd request in a series of 6 is likely just going to be exercising failure paths.

This is so true. I ran into this problem when I was trying to implement a kind of sampling that limited total RPS. Thanks for reminding. I am definitely looking into more sophisticated methods of sampling.

> I didn't see any explanation on how results are determined. I think it's important to surface those types of details on the website. I'm not going to watch the video on it in hopes of learning.

Good feedback! :)