workersio / breakscale
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A browser and VS Code system design simulator that runs discrete-event load tests on component diagrams, measuring latency, queues, and retry failures.
Why you might care
Lets you build a system from load balancers, caches, databases, and queues, then increase traffic to see where it fails and why, using per-request measurements instead of static diagrams. Useful for learning distributed systems failure modes like retry storms and tail latency; it runs in the browser, offline in VS Code, and through an MCP server.
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LicenseMIT
Created2026-08-23 (2mo ago)
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- GitHub: github.com/workersio/breakscale
- Homepage: https://breakscale.tech
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