--- title: "Posts by Alan Mon | Speedscale" description: "Browse all blog posts written by Alan Mon on the Speedscale blog." canonical: "https://speedscale.com/blog/author/alan-mon/" --- # Posts by Alan Mon Alan Mon is a contributor to the Speedscale blog. • 9 posts published [![$4.48 a Gallon: Your Holiday Checkout Is the New Mall](https://speedscale.com/_astro/fewer-trips-bigger-carts.CYc6nSpa_wNL9v.webp)](https://speedscale.com/blog/holiday-checkout-is-the-new-mall/) Sep 24, 2026 ### [$4.48 a Gallon: Your Holiday Checkout Is the New Mall](https://speedscale.com/blog/holiday-checkout-is-the-new-mall/) Prepare your checkout for Black Friday with production traffic replay, peak-load tests, and partner API failure rehearsals before the holiday code freeze. [Performance testing](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/performance-testing/) [Load testing](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/load-testing/) [by Alan Mon](https://speedscale.com/blog/author/alan-mon/) [![Your Observability Stack Found the Fire. Congratulations.](https://speedscale.com/_astro/observability-war-room-fire.BzecHNk2_Z2fX2oC.webp)](https://speedscale.com/blog/your-observability-stack-found-the-fire/) Aug 27, 2026 ### [Your Observability Stack Found the Fire. Congratulations.](https://speedscale.com/blog/your-observability-stack-found-the-fire/) Observability tells you when production is on fire. Capturing and replaying real traffic lets you recreate the incident, verify the fix, and keep it fixed. [Observability](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/observability/) [DevOps](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/devops/) [Microservices](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/microservices/) [by Alan Mon](https://speedscale.com/blog/author/alan-mon/) [![Imaginary Test Data. Real Token Bill.](https://speedscale.com/_astro/featured-image.DfF5e8aM_Z1QbUB9.webp)](https://speedscale.com/blog/imaginary-test-data-real-token-bill/) Jul 23, 2026 ### [Imaginary Test Data. Real Token Bill.](https://speedscale.com/blog/imaginary-test-data-real-token-bill/) Testing AI applications with invented traffic looks fine until real users arrive. Then come the retries, the fallback models, and the token bill. [AI/ML](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/ai/ml/) [API Testing](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/api-testing/) [by Alan Mon](https://speedscale.com/blog/author/alan-mon/) [![The AI Code Explosion: Why Your Mocking Strategy is Breaking Down](https://speedscale.com/_astro/featured-image.BOzNR1zO_1n2sG9.webp)](https://speedscale.com/blog/ai-code-explosion-mocking-strategy-breaking-down/) Jun 4, 2026 ### [The AI Code Explosion: Why Your Mocking Strategy is Breaking Down](https://speedscale.com/blog/ai-code-explosion-mocking-strategy-breaking-down/) AI-generated code breaks traditional mocking. Here's how BYOC capture and replay with proxymock keeps verification grounded in real production traffic. [AI/ML](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/ai/ml/) [API testing](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/api-testing/) [by Alan Mon](https://speedscale.com/blog/author/alan-mon/) [![The DIY Traffic Replay Trap: Why AI Scripts Fail at Scale](https://speedscale.com/_astro/image1.Cx9S1ext_Pcos0.webp)](https://speedscale.com/blog/ai-intern-trap-diy-traffic-replay-scalability-nightmare/) May 15, 2026 ### [The DIY Traffic Replay Trap: Why AI Scripts Fail at Scale](https://speedscale.com/blog/ai-intern-trap-diy-traffic-replay-scalability-nightmare/) AI-generated scripts seem like a quick win, but DIY traffic replay tools become a maintenance nightmare at scale. Here's why Speedscale beats the prompt. [Performance testing](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/performance-testing/) [AI/ML](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/ai/ml/) [Developer tools](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/developer-tools/) [Traffic Replay](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/traffic-replay/) [by Alan Mon](https://speedscale.com/blog/author/alan-mon/) Apr 9, 2026 ### [When Your Observability Literally Stops Traffic](https://speedscale.com/blog/when-your-observability-literally-stops-traffic/) Observability tells you what failed—but not how to recreate it. Why reproducibility is the missing fourth pillar, and what that means for incident response. [Observability](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/observability/) [DevOps](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/devops/) [Microservices](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/microservices/) [by Alan Mon](https://speedscale.com/blog/author/alan-mon/) Mar 13, 2026 ### [Prompt, Deploy, Pray Is Dead: Validating AI Code with Proxymock](https://speedscale.com/blog/prompt-deploy-pray-is-dead/) AI-generated code is moving fast—but without behavioral validation, you're gambling with production stability. See how Proxymock changes the equation. [AI/ML](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/ai/ml/) [Developer tools](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/developer-tools/) [DevOps](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/devops/) [by Alan Mon](https://speedscale.com/blog/author/alan-mon/) Feb 12, 2026 ### [The Ultimate Stress Test: Kim Jong Un, a Parachute, and a Multi-Billion Dollar Prop Bet](https://speedscale.com/blog/the-ultimate-stress-test-kim-jong-un-a-parachute-and-a-multi-billion-dollar-prop-bet/) 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. [Performance testing](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/performance-testing/) [Observability](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/observability/) [DevOps](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/devops/) [by Alan Mon](https://speedscale.com/blog/author/alan-mon/) [![The CES Hangover: 3 Expensive Hardware Fails That Were Actually Software Problems](https://speedscale.com/_astro/image1.CBKsJfVJ_1JRAs.webp)](https://speedscale.com/blog/the-ces-hangover-3-expensive-hardware-fails-that-were-actually-software-problems/) Jan 15, 2026 ### [The CES Hangover: 3 Expensive Hardware Fails That Were Actually Software Problems](https://speedscale.com/blog/the-ces-hangover-3-expensive-hardware-fails-that-were-actually-software-problems/) Stop letting third-party API spikes crash your app. Learn why mocking latency for OpenAI, Anthropic. [Performance testing](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/performance-testing/) [Load testing](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/load-testing/) [Developer tools](https://speedscale.com/blog/category/developer-tools/) [by Alan Mon](https://speedscale.com/blog/author/alan-mon/) ## Try Speedscale free Choose the desktop proxymock or the hosted cloud trial to get started. [Free Desktop Tool](https://docs.speedscale.com/proxymock/getting-started/installation/) [Free Cloud Trial](https://app.speedscale.com/signup)