As we implemented our service that adds pageviews to the database, we realize an unfortunate circumstance. Each insert query takes about 12ms, which means our request rate, at least per single CPU core, is poor. We’re talking about 83 req/s poor.

But as we know that scaling isn’t linear and you shouldn’t judge a single request, we need to perform some stress testing to give us a better idea of where we are.

Now, the best practices of stress testing suggest that you need...