Holiday readiness: run your first load test with skills

A Speedscale walkthrough describes using coding-agent skills and Proxymock to create a repeatable local load-test baseline for a Node application before larger holiday checkout rehearsals. It guides users through installing Proxymock in local mode, connecting agent skills, recording traffic from a sample application’s read endpoints, mocking downstream API responses, and replaying the captured traffic with 10 virtual users for 30 seconds. The sample run achieved low recorded latency, 108,072 mock responses, and no mock misses, but its throughput was constrained by the load generator and mock infrastructure rather than the application, so it could not establish app capacity. Users are advised to inspect saved reports, preserve a consistent baseline recording across builds, explicitly document changes to traffic or mock timing, and later expand testing to representative checkout paths, agreed performance targets, dependency failures, duplicate-order safeguards, autoscaling behavior, and separate load-generation infrastructure when needed.

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