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This is our step 1 <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/tool" target="_blank">tool</a>, but keep in mind that this is single threaded. Think of ab like sanity testing for performance. <strong>For step 1, you can use a single machine, with a good amount of RAM and CPU. Run loads for up to 15–30 mins to check nothing obvious is going wrong.</strong>