Shift-left performance testing with Gatling

A practical guide to modernizing your performance testing practices—built for DevOps, platform, and performance engineering teams.

Learn how shifting performance testing earlier in the development cycle helps teams move from last-minute load tests to an automated, collaborative approach that validates scalability at every stage of delivery.

This guide breaks down how to adopt a shift-left performance workflow—from defining SLAs and writing tests as code to automating validation in CI/CD and sharing insights across teams—so your organization can deliver reliable performance at the speed of modern software.

See how Gatling Enterprise Edition enables teams to embed performance testing into daily development workflows: as code, in CI/CD, and across shared dashboards and analytics.

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In this guide, you’ll learn:

  • Why traditional late-stage load tests no longer fit modern delivery cycles
  • How to design performance tests earlier—at component, service, and API level
  • How to implement test-as-code for traceability, collaboration, and reuse
  • How to automate performance testing in CI/CD using thresholds and gating
  • How to create realistic workloads that reveal bottlenecks early
  • How to build a continuous feedback loop through dashboards and observability
  • How to evolve from reactive firefighting to proactive performance engineering
  • How Gatling Enterprise Edition powers shift-left workflows—from code to CI/CD to analytics

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Illustration From crafting performance tests as code to injecting load from distributed environments and analyzing real-time metrics, Gatling integrates seamlessly into your development and delivery workflows — helping you catch performance issues early and validate system resilience at scale.

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