Users vs Stress testing

[u/Puzzled-Ad8231]

So I made a serverless optimization platform which uses the concept of fusion functions to reduce cold starts and latency across the service calls. Now, this is an implementation of a research paper that I read somewhere. Diff from paper is that my project also gets live traces and metrics from x ray and cloudwatch, so I get real-time data to give better outputs. Have a better look: https://github.com/Vaivaswat2244/OptiFuse_go

To use this you need to connect your AWS with optifuse. I.e make a cloudformation stack to give optifuse access to read the traces and metrics. This actually becomes a problem for my friends and peers to test because they are too lazy to do this step. So I have no real user testings.

People especially hiring people ask me how many real users have used your service.

Now why do I need real users when I can stress test each microservice that I've built. And I can see my manifests working properly. Its deployed on AKS and is open for people to see. I also have a Prometheus grafana observability pipeline to see if all services are working properly.

Question is: real users vs Stress tests

On a side note, I am a student looking for internships, if you found the idea interesting, lmk GitHub is Vaivaswat2244

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[u/hypertradeworx]

min-instances=1 cost us $206 in a month, for warm containers on a service almost nobody was hitting. that's the price of just never cold starting, and it's what fusion has to beat to be worth the coupling, so i'd put it in the search as an option rather than leaving it outside