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speedscale

Use AI and traffic replay to test AI-generated code

Sep 15, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
When I ask an AI agent to change code, I also want it to run the application and test what it changed. Asking it to write some tests is a start. But if it invents the expected responses from the same assumptions it used to write the code, those tests can miss the same mistake. Traffic replay gives the agent something concrete to test against: requests and responses captured from a working application.
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manageengine

The Death of the Search Bar

Sep 15, 2026 By Harsitha P In ManageEngine
I don't remember the last time I actually searched for something. Not in the way I used to, anyway. There was a time when having a question meant opening a search engine, typing a few words, staring at a page full of links, opening three or four of them, reading contradictory answers, deciding which one sounded believable, and eventually coming to a conclusion of my own.
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Why Mocks Fail at Scale #softwareengineering #devops #softwaretesting #api #aicoding

Sep 15, 2026 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Mocking for testing starts off easy, but once you scale to multiple teams and AI agents, handcrafted mocks become a serious form of technical liability. Instead of treating mocking as an individual software engineering task, shift your mindset to treat it as a platform engineering task focused on automation and continuously refreshed modern data. Watch to see how adopting technologies like traffic replay to simulate realistic backend sandboxes can transform your modern testing workflow!
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How backend functions extend Cribl Apps: Scheduling, local testing, and logs

Sep 15, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
See how backend functions extend Cribl Apps with live data retrieval, scheduled jobs, local testing, deployment validation, and logging. In this walkthrough, Giovanni Mola shows developers how to connect app data sources such as Jira and news feeds, manage schedules, preview functions locally, verify a live deployment, and inspect emitted logs in Cribl Search.
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pagerly

24/7 On-Call Coverage With a Small Team

Sep 15, 2026 By Falit Jain In Pagerly
Running 24/7 on-call coverage with a small team is first of all an arithmetic problem, and most teams avoid doing the arithmetic because the answer is uncomfortable. There are 168 hours in a week. Your engineers work roughly 40 of them. Somebody has to be reachable for the other 128, and if you have four engineers, that somebody is each of them, one week in four, thirteen weeks a year.
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pagerly

Cron Job Monitoring: Catch Silent Failures

Sep 15, 2026 By Falit Jain In Pagerly
Cron job monitoring is the part of observability most teams skip until a backup turns out to have stopped running three weeks ago. A web server that falls over generates errors, trips a threshold and pages someone inside a minute. A nightly job that quietly stops running generates nothing at all. There is no error rate to alert on, no latency spike, no failed health check. There is only an absence, and absence is invisible to almost every monitoring setup by default.
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pagerly

Google Calendar On-Call Rotation Template

Sep 15, 2026 By Falit Jain In Pagerly
Most teams building an on-call rotation template in Google Calendar get the first two steps right and the third one wrong. Creating a shared calendar is easy. Inviting the team is easy. Expressing "four people, one week each, forever, handing off Monday morning" as a set of recurring events is where it falls apart, usually into a mess of one off entries that someone has to rebuild by hand every quarter.
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pagerly

SSL Certificate Expiry Alerts in Slack

Sep 15, 2026 By Falit Jain In Pagerly
Certificate expiry is the most predictable outage in all of infrastructure. The date is printed inside the certificate. You can read it ninety days ahead. Nothing about it is a surprise, and yet SSL certificate expiry alerts remain one of the most common gaps in otherwise mature monitoring setups, and expired certificates keep taking down production systems at companies with serious engineering teams.
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IT Pro Day 2026 | Every Day is Game Day

Sep 15, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
IT Pro Day isn’t just a day. It’s GAME DAY. The lights are on, the gear is ready, and IT Pros everywhere are locked in. At SolarWinds we celebrate the people who keep technology running, problems solved, and businesses moving. Because when the network goes down, the pressure is on. When systems need saving, IT Pros show up. Happy IT Pro Day from SolarWinds!
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motadata

How Traceroute Works and How to Read Its Output During an Outage

Sep 15, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Users report that an internal application has gone slow, the server dashboards look normal, and the network group says nothing changed on their side. So where between the user and the application does the time actually go? Much of that answer comes from traceroute. The command lists every router a packet crosses on the way to its destination, with a timing figure set against each one. Arguments about ownership then come down to a single device on a single route.
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