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AWS

Amazon Web Services.

docker

Docker makes it convenient to package programs up in easily runnable and distributable containers.

See also

docker website

dockerized
The packaging of a program to run inside a docker container.
heka

A log/metric analysis daemon, that is run on every machine the load-generation strategy utilizes.

load generator
A load-generator is a program that should generate load. The load-generator runs on many machines and should feed relevant metrics data to the local statsd receiver. The only requirement on the load-generator is that it should be configurable solely via environment and/or command line arguments. Load-generators are packaged for use in loads via docker as containers.
loads-broker
load-testing orchestration program, written in Python 3.
statsd

A network daemon that collects stats metrics. In loads this is usually a local heka instance.

See also

Etsy’s statsd