In these unprecedented times, everyday life has begun to change in ways we couldn’t even dream of only a few weeks ago. With the global population moving to more isolated lifestyles (remote working policies, social distancing, etc.) people are looking to digital services to help create a sense of calm and normalcy.
In this tutorial, we will look into how to integrate performance testing with k6 in your TeamCity build setup. k6 is a free and open-source performance testing tool for testing the performance of APIs, microservices and websites. TeamCity is a continuous integration and delivery server built by JetBrains.
When building businesses it’s of paramount importance to measure what’s working and what’s not. This is especially true for companies that are API-first. Moesif API Analytics allows merging the business and technical perspectives, so as to present a complete picture of the operating environment.
In today’s post, we’ll learn what gRPC is, when you should reach for such a tool, and some of the pros and cons of using it. After going over an introduction of gRPC, we’ll dive right into a sample application where we’ll build an Elixir backend API powered by gRPC. Let’s jump right in!
“All code and no logging makes John a black box error-prone system.” Logging is a key aspect of monitoring, troubleshooting and debugging your code. Not only does it make your project’s underlying execution more transparent and intelligible, but also more accessible in its approach. In a company or a community setting, intelligent logging practices can help everyone to be on the same page about the status and the progress of the project.
Apache Ozone is a distributed object store built on top of Hadoop Distributed Data Store service. It can manage billions of small and large files that are difficult to handle by other distributed file systems. Ozone supports rich APIs such as Amazon S3, Kubernetes CSI as well as native Hadoop File System APIs.
A test framework is a set of guidelines which can be followed to create test cases and related processes. These guidelines can be about coding practices, storage and retrieval of test data and test results, interaction with external resources and many other things. A test framework usually contains internal libraries and reusable code modules which provide a foundation for test automation and can be leveraged to build test automation systems for different types of applications.
When I’m writing new software, one of the most important thoughts in my mind is how I’ll test to make sure it works. There are lots of ways to test software, and when you’re at your best, you should be using all of them. Sure, you should make sure that your QA team is able to verify that your code works before it goes live. You should make sure that the code passes acceptance tests, too.
