OpenTelemetry Trace Testing for CI Release Gates
Trace-based testing uses OpenTelemetry traces as replayable test input so CI catches production regressions before deploy, not after incident review.
Posts about observability
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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.
From Datadog to CI Tests: Catch Regressions Before Deploy
Learn a practical workflow to convert Datadog metrics, traces, and incidents into CI tests that catch regressions before deploy.
The 4 Golden Signals of Monitoring Explained
Learn the 4 golden signals — latency, traffic, errors, and saturation — and how to use them for monitoring, alerting, and pre-release testing.
The Observability Gap: Why Monitoring Data Should Drive Tests
Teams spend six figures on observability but test with synthetic data. Close the gap between what you know about production and what you validate pre-release.
Debugging Encrypted Microservice Traffic with Speedscale's eBPF Collector
Learn how to capture, inspect, archive encrypted microservice traffic with Speedscale's eBPF collector, no certificate management or code changes required.
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.
Moving Our Observability Data Collector from Sidecars to eBPF
Speedscale transitions from Kubernetes sidecar-based observability collection to eBPF for lower latency, reduced resource consumption.
Let Your LLM Debug Using Production Recordings
Connect an MCP server to your LLM coding assistant so it can pull real production data on demand, validate its assumptions.