Alan Mon is a contributor to the Speedscale blog. • 9 posts published
From memes to market meltdowns: Explore how a multi-billion dollar Super Bowl prop bet involving Kim Jong Un pushed prediction markets and SRE teams to the brink.
Stop letting third-party API spikes crash your app. Learn why mocking latency for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google is critical to preventing UI freezes and ensuring a resilient user experience.
Tired of Staging environments that don't match Prod? Learn how Speedscale's Digital Twin, built from real production traffic, solves dependency nightmares, data dilemmas, and configuration drift to ensure your software and AI systems are tested against reality, not assumptions.
Shopify's infrastructure crumbled in 2025 like a city under a 'Commerce Kaiju' attack. Relive the dramatic outage, the checkout carnage, and the crucial lesson learned about shifting left and rigorous testing.
Learn how digital twins and traffic replay, highlighted at kubecon, offer platform engineering teams a 'superpower' to test against real-world scenarios, mock dependencies, and ship updates confidently without writing application code.
Simplify PostgreSQL testing instantly. Replace slow, fragile database setups with Speedscale Proxymock. Record real database traffic once and replay it deterministically, eliminating the need to start, migrate, and seed a local PostgreSQL instance for every test. Speed up CI/CD, eliminate data drift, and save engineering hours.
The AWS DNS outage exposed the risk of cascading failures. Learn how to prevent a single DNS failure from taking down your system by mapping service dependencies and prioritizing failover testing for cloud resilience.
Practical strategies to eliminate QA bottlenecks and build resilient testing pipelines
Catch the ghost! Learn why reproducing production bugs is so hard, how unrealistic test environments fail you, and what Debugging Without a Net really feels like for every engineer.
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