I'm working on Volt-Test, a performance testing engine I started building after repeatedly debugging concurrency and race-condition issues in Laravel/PHP applications.
The idea is to bring something like k6 to the PHP ecosystem:
A Go-based load-testing engine
A PHP SDK that lets developers write performance tests inside PHPUnit
Assertions for latency, error rates, and business logic
Can spin up local servers and run in CI/CD
Working on distributed mode to scale tests across multiple nodes
Currently building the cloud version so teams can run large tests without managing infrastructure
For Laravel developers, I also released a package that integrates Volt-Test directly into the framework:
The idea is to bring something like k6 to the PHP ecosystem:
A Go-based load-testing engine
A PHP SDK that lets developers write performance tests inside PHPUnit
Assertions for latency, error rates, and business logic
Can spin up local servers and run in CI/CD
Working on distributed mode to scale tests across multiple nodes
Currently building the cloud version so teams can run large tests without managing infrastructure
For Laravel developers, I also released a package that integrates Volt-Test directly into the framework:
https://github.com/volt-test/laravel-performance-testing
It supports automatic route discovery and makes it easy to write performance scenarios using familiar testing patterns.
Docs + examples: https://php.volt-test.com
If anyone here has experience building or running distributed load-testing systems, I’d appreciate any feedback or pointers.