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eCommerce Load Testing (Step 4): Generate Load & Repeat

Aug 15, 2023 By Speedscale In Speedscale

In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, explains the final step: generating load and repeating the process with the goal of testing continuously and at a higher velocity.

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Replicating Traffic: Use Cases & Benefits

Aug 15, 2023 By Speedscale In Speedscale

In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, talks about why traffic-based testing (unlike manually writing script tests) can help companies move faster and test at the speed of development. He covers the top use cases and benefits of leveraging traffic as the new way to test.

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eCommerce Load Testing (Step 1): Begin with your checkout and payment APIs

Aug 14, 2023 By Speedscale In Speedscale

In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, shares which APIs should be focused on first and the reasons why.

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How Modern Retailers Approach Software Testing (4 Steps)

Aug 14, 2023 By Speedscale In Speedscale

In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, shares how modern retailers are thinking about and approaching software testing in increasingly dynamic and complex environments.

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eCommerce Load Testing (Step 2): Capture Traffic

Aug 14, 2023 By Speedscale In Speedscale

In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, explains what comes next after selecting the business-critical APIs to test first: capturing traffic. Capturing traffic for the service can be done through tools like Speedscale, GoReplay, VCR, K6, and JMeter.

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What is an API Gateway?

Aug 14, 2023 By Elliot Langston In MetricFire

API Gateways are vital components in today's digital landscape, facilitating seamless communication between systems and applications. To ensure optimal performance, monitoring API Gateways is crucial. MetricFire offers a comprehensive monitoring platform that tracks and analyzes key metrics, providing real-time insights into performance indicators such as latency, error rates, and throughput.

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Trace Propagation and Public API Endpoints in .NET: Part 1 (Disable All)

Aug 11, 2023 By Martin Thwaites In Honeycomb

The W3C trace context specification is an amazing standard and a massive leap in standardization of telemetry correlation in the current climate of microservices being the de facto for new systems (that’s a debate for another day).

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The Darkside of GraphQL

Aug 11, 2023 By Datadog In Datadog

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that provides a powerful and efficient way to query and manipulate data. As powerful and versatile as GraphQL is, its downside is that it can be vulnerable to certain security threats. In this presentation, we will discuss the security vulnerabilities associated with GraphQL, from the basics to more advanced threats, and how to best protect against them. After this presentation, attendees will have a better understanding of security vulnerabilities in GraphQL, as well as an understanding of the steps needed to protect against them.

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Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes

Aug 11, 2023 By Speedscale In Speedscale

As featured on CMG.org: Software development and testing is ultimately all in preparation for go-live. But what if you could predict how your go-live could go wrong? In this webinar, learn how traffic-based tests and mocks can accurately simulate peak load conditions, ensure performance, and increase your top line revenue.

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Checkly Advances Monitoring as Code with New User-Centric Features

Aug 9, 2023 By Checkly In Checkly

Checkly, the leading provider of monitoring solutions powered by a Monitoring as Code (MaC) workflow, has unveiled two groundbreaking features: the Activity Log and Code Exporter. These innovative features not only enhance transparency and simplify the adoption of MaC practices but also mark a significant step forward in Checkly's commitment to advancing the MaC movement, offering users an end-to-end workflow that integrates seamlessly with modern software development practices.

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