Hello, I'm Hassy
X/Twitter: @hveldstra • GitHub: @hassy • Email: h@veldstra.org
Work
I am the founder of Artillery. We're building tools to help improve performance & reliability of the world's software.
You can read more about what we're doing in my blog post on the future of tooling for SRE & production engineering.
My professional interests include SaaS, sustainable open source, cloud infrastructure, and software performance.
Talks & Podcasts
- TestGuild DevOps Toolchain Podcast
- I joined Joe to talk about load testing with Artillery and what makes Artillery different from other load testing tools.
- 🎧 https://testguild.com/podcast/performance/p124-hassy/
- Open Source Startup Podcast no. 100
- I joined Tim & Robby to talk about the origin story of Artillery and how we're reinventing load testing.
- 🎧 https://oss-startup-podcast.launchnotes.io/announcements/episode-100-reimagining-load-testing-with-artillery
- YAIG.dev podcast no. 5
- An appearance on the yaig.dev infra podcast discussing modern API gateways, the myth of overnight success for infra companies, the future of "no code" and more.
- 📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgJoytQ49Ac
- Production load testing as a guardrail for SLOs
- A talk at SLOConf that presents two main ideas: (1) Pagers should only ever go off for SLO breaches; (2) Production load testing is an incredible fitness function and a guardrail for your SLOs
- 📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20K1mJB6tk
- Shift-Left Load Testing is a LIE (PurePerformance Podcast)
- This conversation goes into more depth about why load testing is fundamentally different from other kinds of testing, and is best done in a production environment.
- 🎧 https://podcastaddict.com/episode/125369661
Personal
🏡 I live in Ireland. Before that I was in London for 6 years, and in Edinburgh for 11 years.
🌳 My hobbies include carving, surfing, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. But with a toddler at home there's not much time for hobbies these days.
☕️ I'm always happy to meet new people and help others. Message me on @hveldstra on X/Twitter or email me on h@veldstra.org. I'm also on LinkedIn.