I'd like to plug an open-source project that I've been working on here - https://artillery.io https://artillery.io - as it relates to point (6) in the article.

I'd like to plug an open-source project that I've been working on here - https://artillery.io https://artillery.io - as it relates to point (6) in the article. It's a load-generator, and while it's not microservice-specific per se, it's a lightweight tool that's quite easy to use and it lends itself well to being used frequently, which is great if you want to start doing load-testing early on during development (which is something I've started doing and had good results with). It has HTTP and WebSocket support out of the box, with AMQP coming in the next release (which is often employed as microservice glue).