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4 Tips for Developing Model Context Protocol Server

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly becoming the connective tissue for agentic AI systems and IDE tooling. Whether you’re building a dev tool that integrates with LLMs or enabling a context-aware API backend, standing up an MCP server is a rite of passage. But MCP is still in its early days and there are some sharp edges. Here are four practical shortcuts to fast-track your MCP server development so you can skip the boilerplate and get to the good stuff: intelligent tooling.
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Testing LLM backends for performance with Service Mocking

While incredibly powerful, one of the challenges when building an LLM application (large language model) is dealing with performance implications. However one of the first challenges you'll face when testing LLMs is that there are many evaluation metrics. For simplicity let's take a look at this through a few different test cases for testing LLMs.

Using Proxymock with AWS Services

Amazon Web Services, or AWS, offers a variety of cloud services ranging from AWS resources such as CDNs and data lakes to cloud computing and transformation services such as compute resources, virtual servers, and dynamic availability zones. For this reason, AWS cloud is one of the most broadly adopted cloud solutions, offering a global network of solutions at generally lower costs compared to on-premises solutions.

Using Proxymock with GCP Services

Google Cloud Platform, or GCP, is a cloud resources collection offered by Google for enterprise and standard users. GCP offers a wide range of cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, security, analytics, and even machine learning models. Google Cloud products are the backbone of many cloud applications. Google Cloud allows flexibility with the scalable and predictable cost management.

How to Mock OpenAI's APIs with Speedscale's ProxyMock

Developing APIs can often be a complex web of dependencies, external dependencies, and murky network traffic. In order to build better, developers need a certain amount of stability to test a query or feature against, and when this stability is lacking, development can get more complicated and difficult. Enter API mocking. API mocking is an approach to generating a mock service that provides dependable data for a variety of testing purposes.

Automating API Mocks in Your CI Pipeline with proxymock

When running tests in a CI/CD pipeline, relying on external APIs can introduce instability, slow down execution, and even lead to failed builds due to rate limits or API downtime. Fortunately proxymock provides a solution by capturing API interactions and running a local mock server, enabling fully isolated and repeatable tests. In this blog, we’ll demonstrate how to integrate proxymock into a GitHub Actions CI pipeline using a demo app called outerspace-go.
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What Are Cloud Development Environments?

Especially, if you have a globally distributed team, CDEs give you a smoother developer experience just by its online nature. Instead of wrestling with conflicting dependencies, trudging with inconsistent local setups, or waiting for your code to compile, you have a powerful, instantly accessible development environment in the cloud. CDEs remove typical limitations like hardware and scalability. You can quickly get started with minimal setup and configuration, but confidently move forward due to the flexibility and customization features CDEs provide.

Modernize Test Data Management with Traffic Replay

In software testing or platform engineering, having realistic data is crucial. For years, teams have relied on Test Data Management (TDM) to copy entire production databases, scrub any sensitive information, and then spin up test environments from these sanitized data sets. While TDM gets the job done, it can be costly, time-consuming, and can quickly become outdated.

How to Mock AI APIs Using proxymock

APIs often represent the cutting edge of the technology space. This is especially true with Artificial Intelligence – as AI has evolved from speculative technology to mass adoption, it has shown up significantly in APIs as a modality and mechanism. However, as with all new technologies, using AI APIs comes with significant challenges.
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What Is Shadow Traffic? All You Need to Know

Production traffic can often be unpredictable, and distinguishing genuine user interactions from mere noise becomes a pivotal step in comprehensively grasping the types of requests and workflows occurring within your deployment. One important concept to explore in this context is shadow traffic, which plays a significant role in analytics and cybersecurity but is often misunderstood or rarely discussed.