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I Hate Testing!
Hi everyone, I'm Alan, Head of Customer Success here at Speedscale. If you'd told me a few years ago that I'd be working for a company knee-deep in the.
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.
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!
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Settle Your QA Debt Before the Bugs Start Breaking Kneecaps
Practical strategies to eliminate QA bottlenecks and build resilient testing pipelines
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.
Mocking PostgreSQL the Easy Way: Simplifying Testing with Speedscale Proxymock
Record real PostgreSQL traffic with proxymock and replay it deterministically. No more local database setup, no more seeded test data.
KubeCon Retrospective: Platform Engineering Needs to Do More Testing
Learn how digital twins and traffic replay, highlighted at kubecon, offer platform engineering teams a 'superpower' to test against real-world scenarios.
Shopify Outage 2025: Rise of the Commerce Kaiju
Shopify's infrastructure crumbled in 2025 like a city under a 'Commerce Kaiju' attack.
Digital Twins Gone Wild: My Unexpected AI Doppelgänger
Tired of Staging environments that don't match Prod? Learn how Speedscale's Digital Twin, built from real production traffic, solves dependency.
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.
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.
Prompt, Deploy, Pray Is Dead: Validating AI Code with Proxymock
AI-generated code is moving fast—but without behavioral validation, you're gambling with production stability. See how Proxymock changes the equation.
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.
The DIY Traffic Replay Trap: Why AI Scripts Fail at Scale
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.
The AI Code Explosion: Why Your Mocking Strategy is Breaking Down
AI-generated code breaks traditional mocking. Here's how BYOC capture and replay with proxymock keeps verification grounded in real production traffic.