DevOps

27 Jul

Application Logging in 2021

Have you ever written a Hello, World! application? In most of these tutorials the first step is to log words to the console. It’s an

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22 Jul

Creating Envoy WebAssembly Extensions

In the CNCF ecosystem, Envoy, an open source service proxy developed by Lyft, is a very common choice in service mesh networking. In a previous

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20 Jul

Choosing an API technology: gRPC, REST, GraphQL

How do you choose an API style and API technology when you start a new project? Today, if you look at API technology research such

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16 Jul

Packet Capture Without “tcpdump” for G...

Every developer knows there are some utilities that are completely indispensable from their workflows. The programmer’s toolbelt, if you will. These toolbelts are usually different

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08 Jul

Announcing Istio integration

Adoption of service meshes like Istio is increasing. As a result, Speedscale has developed a webassembly plugin. We extended Envoy using Rust, and no changes

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07 Jul

The Service Mesh Landscape in 2021

The Service Mesh Landscape in 2021 A service mesh is a software infrastructure layer for controlling communication between services and usually tasked with handling all

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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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08 Jun

Dale Frohman: Should we test in production?

It’s always exciting when your work is recognized! We appreciate that Dale Frohman chose to include us in his most recent blog on LinkedIn –

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03 Jun

Feature Spotlight: Service Mocks

Why Mocks? Nowadays APIs are the de facto method of communication between services. With all the connections points, setting up environments to efficiently build and

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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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25 May

Top 15 Kubernetes Resources

Top 15 Kubernetes Resources While Kubernetes is a very powerful and comprehensive application, it can also be very complicated and confusing to new users. Thankfully,

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11 May

Replay Single Transactions for Root Cause Analysis

Speedscale was built primarily to provide engineering teams with better insight into their applications over time, replaying single transactions for root cause analysis that give

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04 May

Out with GraphQL, in with gRPC

At Speedscale, we’re always trying to find ways to iterate faster and reduce developer toil. In line with that mission, we slant our engineering decisions

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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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08 Apr

Top 5 Kubernetes Load-Testing Tools and How They C...

Top 5 Kubernetes Load-Testing Tools and How They Compare It’s not for nothing that Kubernetes is a popular choice for running a cloud workload. It

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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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22 Feb

Feature Spotlight: Golden Signals

As a team we have spent many years troubleshooting performance problems in production systems. Applications have gotten so complex you need a standard methodology to

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