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Test PostgreSQL With the Queries Your App Actually Runs

Sep 24, 2026 By Matt LeRay In Speedscale
The first number from my local PostgreSQL 16 test was roughly 1,600 statements per second. It looked impressive. It was also the least useful result in the run. The useful part was the workload. It came from queries the demo app had actually sent: the same prepared statements, parameters, reads and writes. A synthetic benchmark tells you how PostgreSQL handles a synthetic workload. It does not tell you whether your migration just broke the UPDATE your app depends on.
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$4.48 a Gallon: Your Holiday Checkout Is the New Mall

Sep 24, 2026 By Alan Mon In Speedscale
Remember when “going shopping” meant getting in the car? This fall, filling the tank feels like applying for a small loan. U.S. regular gasoline averaged about $4.48 a gallon for the week of September 21, 2026. A round trip to the store starts competing with free shipping. And free shipping never needs a parking spot. That doesn’t tell us how many shoppers will move online this holiday season.
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Synthetic Monitoring Is Broken. Your Production Traffic Can Fix It.

Sep 22, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Synthetic monitoring has been a critical part of application reliability for years. It gives engineering and operations teams a way to proactively test applications, APIs, and critical customer journeys before users encounter problems. But there is a fundamental limitation with the traditional approach: Someone has to create the tests. As applications become more distributed and customer journeys become more complex, organizations can end up maintaining hundreds or even thousands of synthetic scripts. Every new feature, API, dependency, or change to a customer journey can require another update.
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Team-Based DLP: Give Each Group Its Own Redaction Rules

Sep 18, 2026 By Matt LeRay In Speedscale
A shared Kubernetes cluster rarely belongs to one team. Payments runs checkout in one namespace, search runs search-api in another, and a risk team runs a scorer somewhere else. One Speedscale forwarder captures API traffic for all of them. Redacting that traffic before it leaves the cluster is what makes it safe to use for testing (the background is in The PII Testing Dilemma). Until now, that forwarder ran exactly one DLP rule. Every team that needed a field redacted had to edit the same JSON document.
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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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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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eBPF: Correlating rustls Plaintext to TCP Connections Without a File Descriptor

Sep 14, 2026 By Shaun Duncan In Speedscale
In Under the Hood with Go TLS and eBPF, I left socket tracking as an exercise for later. The example used bpf_get_current_pid_tgid() and explicitly excluded concurrent TLS operations. Capturing plaintext was enough for that post. With rustls, later arrived: I could read the HTTP payload perfectly and still attach it to the wrong TCP connection. That’s a frustratingly convincing failure. The request looks right. The response looks right. The application works.
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Are SOC 2's days numbered? #SOC2 #CodeReview #AICoding #DevOps #SoftwareDevelopment #LLM #SpeedScale

Sep 14, 2026 By Speedscale In Speedscale
As companies adopt AI coding tools, code review processes are breaking down. Traditional compliance methods are slowing teams down, but human engineers aren't going to spend hours reading AI-generated low-level code forever. How will SOC 2 adapt to the era of AI-driven development? Drop your thoughts in the comments and subscribe for more tech insights! Learn more: speedscale.com.
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Five Ways to Use OpenTelemetry Beyond Observability

Sep 11, 2026 By Matt LeRay In Speedscale
OpenTelemetry graduated from the CNCF in May 2026 as, in the foundation’s own words, the de facto observability standard. The JavaScript API package alone did 1.36 billion downloads in twelve months. That kind of win has a side effect nobody plans for. Once a wire format is everywhere, has a receiver for every source, a transform language, and an agent your platform team already operates, people start putting things on it that have nothing to do with knowing whether a service is healthy.
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