Cascading Failures Aren’t Inevitable: Lessons from the AWS DNS Outage
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.
Posts by Alan Mon
Alan Mon is a contributor to the Speedscale blog. • 9 posts published
Settle Your QA Debt Before the Bugs Start Breaking Kneecaps
Practical strategies to eliminate QA bottlenecks and build resilient testing pipelines
Debugging Without a Net: The Pain of Reproducing Production Issues
Catch the ghost! Learn why reproducing production bugs is so hard, how unrealistic test environments fail you.
MySQL Mocking with Speedscale's Proxymock: A Complete Guide
Record real MySQL traffic with proxymock and replay it in tests. Eliminate local database setup and flaky CI runs.
QA Debt: The Silent Risk That Can Take Down Your Business
Don't let 'QA debt' derail your career and company. Unlike technical debt, this invisible accumulation of missed tests and shortcuts builds silently.
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Thoughts on My First Year at Speedscale
When I started at Speedscale, I looked like this: And after one year of learning, growing, keeping pace with innovation well, let’s just say the journey...
Back in India for KubeCon 2025: Highlights from Hyderabad — Part 2
After an eventful week of customer visits and reconnecting with partners, the centerpiece of my trip was KubeCon in Hyderabad. Walking into the venue...
Back in India for KubeCon 2025: Connections, Conversations, and a Sprint Through Delhi — Part 1
Last week, I returned to India for the first time since the beginning of COVID — and what a journey it was!
Boba Paradox
It’s 2PM on a Thursday. Your engineering team is knee-deep in bugs from a recent release. But what’s the Slack channel buzzing about? Not flaky tests.
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