newsapps/beeswithmachineguns
A utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 instances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications). observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_readme
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5909
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 888
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
6628 stars · 626 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Bees with Machine Guns is a Python CLI utility that spins up many micro EC2 instances ('bees') to perform distributed load testing against web applications. It orchestrates the instances to attack a target URL simultaneously and reports the results.
Use cases
- load test a web application from multiple machines
- stress test an HTTP endpoint with high concurrency
- simulate a traffic spike using EC2 instances
- measure how a web service handles distributed requests
- generate heavy request load against a staging site
When to choose
- you want a simple, scriptable distributed load test on AWS EC2
- you need to generate more load than a single machine can produce
- you prefer a lightweight Python tool over complex load-testing platforms
When to avoid
- you are not using AWS or don't want to pay for EC2 instances
- you need rich metrics, scripting of scenarios, or a GUI (consider k6, Locust, or JMeter)
- the project's maintenance pace or Python 2-era design doesn't fit modern workflows
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
load-testing cli cloud developer-tools testing cloud-computing performance python cli cloud load-testing ec2 stress-testing distributed-testing python
1 source
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/beeswithmachineguns/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · e7717ff2199e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| newsapps/beeswithmachineguns | main | 32 |
For agents
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