paulirish/lazyweb-requests — Issue #56: Fake data creators
Author: nimbupani
Created: 2012-02-21 16:51:31+00:00
State: open

We have [faker.js](https://github.com/marak/faker.js] but we need better data. [this article](http://www.bigfastblog.com/how-to-get-experience-working-with-large-datasets) cites some sources, and I checked out the [freebase dataset](http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/) which seems to have a great diversity in data (names, genders, addresses, etc) which would make very good datasets for robust testing of web apps.

I wonder if faker.js or anything else can be accommodated with this dataset? That post also talks about other ways to test your app:

* Create an algorithm that simulates mass user sign-up, 10,000 tweets per second, or vast amounts of logging data.
* Built a load-testing system, in which I recorded one days worth of data coming into the production system, then played it back at high-speed on a loop into my load-testing system.

Ideally most of this should be in the cloud and have api access for testing. I understand this requires money to work, so I would understand if this requires to be paid, but it would be great to have such data for testing.

cc: @marak