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Using Python MockServer for API Testing

Jan 30, 2025 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
Using a mock server is a popular method of working around these limitations and realities, allowing you to test web server assets against specific requests, ensuring that your response data matches the expected outcome. Today, we’re going to look at a powerful solution for Python clients in the form of MockServer. We’ll walk through the tool’s basics and learn how to use it for your own testing.
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Ultimate Guide to Creating a JSON Mock API for Testing

Jan 21, 2025 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Using a JSON mock allows you to avoid using fake data or simulating interactions, resulting in better final output and stronger data flows. Today, we’re going to dive into the process of creating a mock API using JSON data and tools like JSON-server. This guide will help you understand the basics of this process and get started quickly with your own mock API, allowing you to speed up development and testing without relying on a live backend.
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Python Observability : A Complete Guide

Jan 10, 2025 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
Observability is a critical element of modern software development, unlocking awareness across complex and distributed systems with ease. This has allowed developers to monitor, understand, and debug their applications effectively, leveraging existing resources for more efficient lifecycle management and iteration. In the context of Python, observability is an engine for boosting and maintaining the performance, reliability, and stability of the implementation. In this guide, we're going to look at the key aspects of building and deploying Python observability, the importance of this process, and the tools available to implement it.
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Orchestrated Service Virtualization: The Definitive Guide

Jan 8, 2025 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Software development requires a lot of things to be highly optimized due to the sheer number of parts and the interconnected nature of those parts. Making your service seamless, efficient, and scalable requires tooling that is itself seamless, efficient, and scalable. As organizations have moved to adopting microservices and distributed cloud-native solutions, being able to effectively scale resources and the systems which operate upon those resources has been made even more critical.
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What is Traffic Mirroring: A Complete Guide

Jan 6, 2025 By Kush Mansingh In Speedscale
Ensuring seamless data flow and robust application performance is crucial in modern networking and cloud computing. Traffic mirroring enables enhanced network observability, allows for effective troubleshooting, and facilitates the testing of new features without interrupting live traffic. It captures and replicates network traffic, providing a powerful solution for maintaining and optimizing network operations.
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What does OOMKilled mean and how do I prevent it?

Jan 1, 2025 By Shaun Duncan In Speedscale
When creating production-level applications, enterprises want to ensure the high availability of services. This often results in a lengthy development process that requires extensive testing for the applications or a new release. This involves testing the behavior of the application under load, measuring the performance metrics, and accounting for the resource consumption. All this is done to ensure that the application does not behave unexpectedly when being used by clients.
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gRPC Golang Example: Using gRPC with Golang | Speedscale

Dec 31, 2024 By Shaun Duncan In Speedscale
In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with the gRPC Golang library for microservice communication by creating a simple note-taking application. You will generate a gRPC client that is highly efficient and has a service implementation that handles a diverse range of request and response types. APIs and service-to-service communication are what make modern microservice architecture possible.
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The Ultimate Guide to REST API Testing: Best Practices and Tools

Dec 27, 2024 By Kush Mansingh In Speedscale
APIs might not always be in the spotlight, but they’re the unsung heroes of just about every modern software project. APIs make it possible for different apps, services, and platforms to talk to each other seamlessly. When an API falters, so does the entire system. That’s where REST API testing comes in. It’s not just a box to check off—it’s the key to making sure your services are dependable, secure, and prepared to handle the unexpected.
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How to Load Test Kubernetes

Dec 23, 2024 By Josh Thornton In Speedscale
Performance tests, end-to-end tests, integration tests. There are many different types of tests you can run on your infrastructure. One of the most overlooked kinds is load testing. Failure to include load tests in your supply chain can be detrimental, as you will be missing out on a number of benefits. Some of the big advantages of load testing Kubernetes are.
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