At high scale, you should have a few grand to pay gomez for some real-world load testing without having to buy your own hardware. Also, it sounds like the autho

At high scale, you should have a few grand to pay gomez for some real-world load testing without having to buy your own hardware. Also, it sounds like the author did not even try a "workstation with jmeter". I am by no means a scalability expert but even I know better than to stress-test on a live system.