Maturity of software is related to the technical debt and requirements it took to get there along the way. How do you know when you're ready to make architectural changes or how to make those changes? By benchmarking of course! This is a story about Grafana's path to maturity and how we're using Grafana and K6 to benchmark Grafana and overcome technical debt as part of our architecture overhaul. Slides: About Jeff Levin: Jeff is a software engineer from Anchorage, Alaska. He started programming in middle school and went on to run IT for non-profit while in college. After looking for jobs and a software community to participate in he started his own consulting firm Levinology Labs and the Alaska Developers Alliance before launching a SaaS company in the legal space. He now works for Grafana Labs as a software engineer on the Grafana Architecture Team.