Create performance analytics tests

In order to properly evaluate and monitor the performance of the API, a set of perf. analytic tests would be incredibly beneficial. The 2 types of testing that we would aim to cover at a minimum are sustained load and spike testing.

Initial thoughts for this issue are to create a JMeter profile that can work for multiple aspects of the application. We could easily configure the number of threads running concurrently, as well as frequency. Its open source, and provides basic performance numbers on time for results.