This document discusses the importance of load testing software applications before launch. It introduces Gatling, an open-source load testing tool, and FrontLine, its enterprise version. Gatling aims to make load testing usable, maintainable, performant, and integratable. It uses a domain-specific language to simulate user traffic and behaviors. The document emphasizes choosing appropriate metrics for reporting, like percentiles rather than just averages, to accurately capture a system's performance under load. It concludes with a demo of Gatling's features like live dashboards and integration with continuous integration pipelines.