Automated performance testing

[designfrontier]

Would be nice to look at some metrics to keep track of speed delta in the code base over time.

This is made complicated of course by a zillion things but tracking things like:

• time to complete each test
• time to complete a response cycle for a couple different canned operations (POST request, GET request, Upload file, etc) repeated a few hundred times and then averaged
• a full on load test against a demo server looking for degradation
• perhaps an automated flame chart for some of the above...?

Looking for ideas and suggestions on getting this up and running. This issue will hold discussion around this and subsequent tickets will be created to handle actual implementation.