Automate API Mocking with ProxyMock
Learn how to quickly build an ephemeral CI test environment using GitHub Actions and proxymock. This video shows you how to insert meaningful tests without depending on flaky mocks or virtualized services.
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Service Mocks #speedscale #service #mocks #software
Ken Ahrens from Speedscale break down the challenges with service mocks — from the complexity of building them to common misunderstandings about their purpose. Many think of mocks like unit test stubs, but service mocks are much more powerful. They can simulate production conditions right on your laptop, making testing more realistic and reliable.
AI Integration #speedscale #ai #integration #mcp #march
Ken Ahrens from Speescale dives into the best AI API integration model of March 2025 — Anthropic's MCP model. This innovative integration enables seamless communication with browsers and various tools, including the popular Cursor. Discover how the MCP model is revolutionizing AI-powered workflows and boosting productivity.
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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 While TDM gets the job done, it can be costly, time-consuming, and can quickly become outdated.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.
gRPC Observability and Mocking with proxymock
Use the free proxymock CLI to observe your locally running gRPC app without code changes. You can also create service mocks and embed them into your CI/CD pipeline using the same recording.
proxymock CLI: Local mocks from network traffic (free)
Free yourself from integration and staging environments by making transportable recordings for debugging and CI/CD..
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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.
Using Python MockServer for API Testing
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.