Ken Ahrens, Author at Speedscale

23 Jun

Performance Tool k6 Acquired by Grafana Labs

There was a big announcement this year at GrafanaCon 2021 that performance testing tool k6 is being aquired by Grafana Labs. It was really exciting

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01 Jun

GitLab 2021 DevSecOps Survey Key Findings

For the last several years, GitLab has run a major survey about the trends facing the DevSecOps community. This year over 4,000 people responded to

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13 May

Speedscale DEI Initiatives Recognized by InHerSigh...

Speedscale was recently featured for its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) inititatives by InHerSight, a firm that uses data to help women find and improve

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23 Apr

Software Engineering Daily Podcast

Podcast Source: Speedscale: Automated Testing with Ken Ahrens and Matt LeRay Large portions of software development budgets are dedicated for testing code. A new component

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30 Mar

SpeedChat: Shift-Left vs. Shift-Right Throwdown

Speedscale ‘SpeedChat’ Episode 2: Shift-Left vs. Shift-Right Throwdown featuring Nate Lee (Founder, Speedscale), Ken Ahrens (Founder, Speedscale) and Jason English (Principal Analyst, Intellyx). Show Links

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19 Mar

SpeedChat: Product Management and Eating Dog Food

Speedscale ‘SpeedChat’ Episode 1: Discussing software product management, ‘dogfooding’ and scaling quickly for product/market fit without breaking things. Show Links Listen or download the podcast

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05 Mar

Check out the 3-minute intro

Check out our new 3-minute intro video, the first release on our Youtube Channel. Modern apps are bombarded by intense forces Finding defects early is

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03 Feb

Enterprise CXO Priorities for 2021

One of the reasons we selected Sierra Ventures as one of our seed investors is because of their CXO Advisory Board. They have dozens of

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20 Jan

Trends in 2021 Dev-Led Landscape

This is a follow-on from a September 2020 post about the Developer-Led Landscape. Nowadays developers are in the driver’s seat regarding a lot of decisions

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12 Nov

From react-admin to pure react

When we were building out our first UI at Speedscale we wanted to get something up and running quickly. Fortunately there are a ton of

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22 Oct

Investor Perspectives

On the heels of the public announcement of our seed round, our investors shared some insights about their investment rationale. VC Investor Sri Muppidi writes

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17 Oct

Announcing our Seed Investment

I am pleased to announce that Speedscale has secured over $3m from a group of venture capital veterans, co-led by Sierra Ventures (Menlo Park, CA)

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23 Sep

The Developer-Led Landscape

In a recent article by Tyler Jewell (Dell Technologies Capital), he covers the way that developers are now influencing technology decisions. This trend is changing

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