diff --git a/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/tmp/testing.ts b/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/tmp/testing.ts
index 0f0895af..0b2001fa 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/tmp/testing.ts
+++ b/packages/artifact/src/internal/upload/tmp/testing.ts
@@ -1,15 +1,38 @@
-import {AppendBlobAppendBlockOptions, BlobClient} from '@azure/storage-blob'
+import {BlobClient, BlockBlobUploadStreamOptions} from '@azure/storage-blob'
+import { TransferProgressEvent } from '@azure/core-http';
 import * as a from 'archiver'
 import * as fs from 'fs'
 import * as stream from 'stream'
 
+const bufferSize = 1024 * 1024 * 8 // 8 MB 
+
+// Custom stream transformer so we can set the highWaterMark property
+// See https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/8855
+export class ZipUploadStream extends stream.Transform {  
+    constructor(bufferSize: number) {
+        super({
+            highWaterMark: bufferSize
+        })
+    }
+
+    _transform(chunk:any, enc:any, cb:any) {
+        cb(null, chunk)
+    }
+}
+
+
 // for local testing, run this using ts-node testing.ts
 export async function test(){
+    let sasURL = "paste here"
+    sasURL = sasURL.replace("http://devstoreaccount1.blob.codedev.localhost", "http://127.0.0.1:11000/devstoreaccount1")
 
-    const sasURL = "http://127.0.0.1:11000/devstoreaccount1/actions-results/workflow-run-d...{add full SAS URL for testing here}"
     const blobClient = new BlobClient(sasURL);
     const zip = a.create('zip', {
         zlib: { level: 9 } // Sets the compression level.
+        // Available options are 0-9
+        // 0 => no compression
+        // 1 => fastest with low compression
+        // 9 => highest compression ratio but the slowest
     });
 
     // append files that are going to be part of the final zip
@@ -17,48 +40,84 @@ export async function test(){
     zip.append('this is file 2', { name: 'file2.txt' });
     zip.append('this is file 1 in a directory', { name: 'dir/file1.txt' });
     zip.append('this is file 2 in a directory', { name: 'dir/file2.txt' });
+    zip.append('this is a live demo!!!', { name: 'dir/alive.txt' });
     zip.append(fs.createReadStream('a.txt'), { name: 'dir2/a.txt' })
     zip.append(fs.createReadStream('b.txt'), { name: 'dir2/b.txt' })
 
-    // Create in-memory duplex stream to pipe zip straight to the upload
-    const passThroughStream = new stream.PassThrough()
-    zip.pipe(passThroughStream)
+    const zipUploadStream = new ZipUploadStream(bufferSize)
+    zip.pipe(zipUploadStream)
     zip.finalize();
 
+    console.log("Write high watermark value " + zipUploadStream.writableHighWaterMark)
+    console.log("Read high watermark value "  + zipUploadStream.readableHighWaterMark)
+
+    // good practice to catch warnings (ie stat failures and other non-blocking errors)
+    zip.on('warning', function(err) {
+        if (err.code === 'ENOENT') {
+            console.log("zip error ENOENT")
+        } else {
+            console.log("some other warning ")
+            console.log(err)
+        }
+    });
+  
+    // good practice to catch this error explicitly
+    zip.on('error', function(err) {
+        console.log("some error with zip ")
+        console.log(err)
+    });
+
+    zip.on("progress", function(progress: a.ProgressData) {
+        console.log(progress)
+
+        /* This outputs data like this, we could potentially do something with this for even more logging to show the status of the zip creation
+            {
+            entries: { total: 7, processed: 1 },
+            fs: { totalBytes: 0, processedBytes: 0 }
+            }
+            {
+            entries: { total: 7, processed: 2 },
+            fs: { totalBytes: 0, processedBytes: 0 }
+            }
+        */
+    })
+
+
+    // We can add these to debug logging
+    zip.on('end', function() {
+        console.log("zip ending")
+    });
+    zip.on('finish', function() {
+        console.log("zip finished")
+    });
+
     // Upload options
-    const ONE_MEGABYTE = 1024 * 1024;
-    const uploadOptions = { bufferSize: 4 * ONE_MEGABYTE, maxBuffers: 5 };
+    const maxBuffers = 5
     const blockBlobClient = blobClient.getBlockBlobClient()
+
+    let uploadByteCount = 0
+    var myCallback = function(progress: TransferProgressEvent) {
+        console.log("Byte upload count " + progress.loadedBytes)
+        uploadByteCount = progress.loadedBytes
+      };
+
+    const options: BlockBlobUploadStreamOptions = {
+        blobHTTPHeaders: { "blobContentType": "zip" },
+        onProgress: myCallback
+    }
   
     // Upload!
     try {
-        await blockBlobClient.uploadStream(
-            passThroughStream,
-            uploadOptions.bufferSize,
-            uploadOptions.maxBuffers
+        const aa = await blockBlobClient.uploadStream(
+            zipUploadStream,
+            bufferSize,
+            maxBuffers,
+            options
         );
     } catch (error){
         console.log(error)
     }
-
-    // That was easy
-    console.log("this worked!")
+    console.log("final upload size in bytes is " + uploadByteCount)
 }
 
 test()
-
-
-    // Another simple way of doing this
-    //const appendBlobClient = blobClient.getAppendBlobClient()
-
-    //const response = await appendBlobClient.createIfNotExists()
-    //console.log(response)
-
-
-    //const content = "hello there! This is uploading from a SAS"
-
-    //const options : AppendBlobAppendBlockOptions = {
-        // TODO, we could add MD5 or CRC64 hash info to protect the integrity
-    //}
-
-    //const response2 = await appendBlobClient.appendBlock(content, content.length, options);
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