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Join Ken on SMC Journal - Scaling Kubernetes, Microservices, and Ephemeral Environments

Aug 16, 2024 By Nate Lee In Speedscale

Check out Ken Ahrens and Scott Moore as they discuss some blockers of developer productivity when building in Kubernetes, and how removing environment and data challenges can reduce toil and frustration! You can catch the full podcast on Scott’s page here: Scott Moore: Hey everybody out there in internet meme land. It’s time to hide your kids and hide your wife because it’s time for the SMC Journal podcast. Some of you will get that joke. Others will not.

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From Basic Monitoring to Modern Observability: Shifting Right and Observability as Code

Aug 16, 2024 By Alberto Gomez In Checkly

I've been in the observability market long before it even had that name. Over the years, observability has undergone a significant transformation. As someone who has witnessed these changes firsthand, I can attest to the dynamic nature of this field. In the early days, it was largely about basic monitoring: tracking system metrics, lots of logs, and simple alerts.

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API update: Metrics

Aug 15, 2024 By Jared Scholz In Raygun

We recently released two new Raygun API endpoints that expose time series aggregations for particular metrics. They enable you to consolidate your company’s metrics into an external dashboard (such as Grafana, Tableau, or PowerBI), correlate errors and page performance with data points that Raygun cannot see, or even perform advanced data analysis.

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What is SharePoint REST API? Explained for Beginners

Aug 14, 2024 By Mark In SmiKar Software

The SharePoint REST API is a powerful tool that allows developers to interact with SharePoint data and resources remotely. Whether you’re managing documents, configuring sites, or building custom applications, the REST API provides a flexible, efficient way to programmatically access and manipulate data within a SharePoint environment.

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Isolating Bottlenecks: How to Determine If Your Slowdown Is Due to the Database or API

Aug 12, 2024 By Fortune Adekogbe In Speedscale

Every slowdown in your application can be traced to specific components like a database or an API, and quickly identifying the source aids the troubleshooting process. But when an API is underperforming, it may be difficult to tell whether the issue is with the API logic itself or an external service like a database that it interacts with before sending responses.

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Traffic-Driven Testing: All the Benefits of Shift-Right Testing with None of the Risk

Aug 12, 2024 By James Konik In Speedscale

The shift-right testing approach moves testing to later in your production cycle. Also known as "testing in production," with shift-right, you test software after it has been deployed. It gives you continuous feedback based on real-world user interactions. However, there are major drawbacks to the approach. For example, testing in production risks disrupting your user satisfaction and can mean you catch issues too late to respond to them effectively. It can also be difficult to test problems related to scale and traffic volume. Your tests are also difficult to repeat under the same conditions.

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When to violate coding best practices

Aug 11, 2024 By Jan Grzesik In Checkly

When I was first learning programming, I was implementing a markov chain and explained to my mentor that it was taking me more than a week to do. I was implementing input sanitization on my interface. “Don’t do that” said my mentor, “your tool has zero users, soon it will have one user, you.

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Exploring API Center: A Deep Dive with Julia Casper

Aug 9, 2024 By Turbo360 In Turbo360

This episode of "INTEGRATE expert voices - Unplugged" from the Azure on Air podcast, features Julia Casper from Microsoft's API Management team.

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How to Speed up your Playwright Tests with shared "storageState"

Aug 8, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly

Join Stefan Judis, Playwright Ambassador, as he shows you how to speed up your Playwright test suite execution time for apps behind a login. Usually, login-walled products require you to log in for every test case. However, by implementing project dependencies, setting up a project, and pairing everything with the storage state, you can log into your app once and then reuse the browser and storage state. This setup equips your subsequent tests with essential cookies and browser state, saving time and effort by avoiding repetitive login actions.

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How to Speed up your Playwright Tests with shared "storageState"

Aug 7, 2024 By Stefan Judis In Checkly

What are the two things making your end-to-end test investment a failure? Firstly, it's test flakiness. If you've invested days (if not months) in creating your test suite and it didn't turn out to be like this one trustworthy friend you have in your life for decades, you failed. You failed because eventually, you'll discover that every moment waiting for retrying tests became a burden.

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