Hacking Performance Testing: Boilerplate as a Service

Performance testing is broken. We waste 80% of our time writing boilerplate, tweaking config files (YAML or JMX), and staring at dashboards to catch a p99 spike. What if your tests could write, run, and debug themselves?

In this 25-minute talk, I will introduce "Boilerplate as a Service" - a shift from manual scripting to meta-prompt automation. Using a real-world case study of scaling a metadata layer to 100k+ entities, I’ll demonstrate how we replaced traditional CI/CD overhead with a Three-Tier Agentic Loop (Meta-Prompt Strategy, Code Generation, and Automated RCA). You will see how this workflow generated 76 ready-to-use performance tests in minutes, cutting our setup time by 90%. We will also explore the future of debugging: moving away from generic alerts to autonomous AI agents that pinpoint the exact issue, or to heavy template rendering that kills your throughput.

Stop being a script operator. Start architecting intents.