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Nicole van der Hoeven

Senior Developer Advocate

Nicole is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs. She is a performance engineer with over ten years' experience in breaking software and learning to build it back up again. She has worked as a performance testing consultant in Australia and the Netherlands, helping teams all over the world scale up their load tests on the cloud. She spends eight hours a week playing Dungeons & Dragons, and her real-life alignment is chaotic good.

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Nicole van der Hoeven · 3 Apr 2023 · 9 min read

Frontend vs. backend: How to plan your performance testing strategy

Frontend observability

Nicole van der Hoeven · 27 Jan 2021 · 26 min read

Comparing k6 and JMeter for load testing

Learn about the strengths and weaknesses of JMeter and of k6, as well as what to consider when choosing a load testing tool and which tool is better...

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Frontend vs. backend: How to plan your performance testing strategy

Comparing k6 and JMeter for load testing