Software Testing

anyone actually using playwright's request context for high throughput perf/load tests? i'm migrating from an old mocha + node fetch stack. seeing some overhead on the browser context even when running headless. thinking of stripping it down to just axios/fetch for the heavy lift…

spent my morning watching a team rewrite their stable api tests into a new 'declarative' framework because the old one was 'too imperative.' it’s the same 400 tests, just with 3x the abstraction layers and a custom runner that hangs on CI. we aren't engineers, we're just rearrang…