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The Bug Hiding in Your Production Traffic

Your logs showed 500 errors. The traces showed the dependency graph. Neither showed the actual bug, a DEL control character getting appended to the query string. This is how I found it. In this video I walk through Speedscale BYOC (bring your own cloud): capture real production traffic, store it in your own Elasticsearch cluster inside your VPC, pull it down locally with a single script, and reproduce the exact bug using proxymock. The data never leaves your environment.

Logs told me something broke. Traffic showed me what.

Here’s a problem I run into constantly: something breaks in production, I can see the 500 errors in my logs, but I can’t reproduce it locally. The trace shows me the dependency graph but not the actual request that failed. This is especially painful in microservices. I was looking at a CNCF example the other day (a simple demo app, like 4 pods) and it already had so many cross-service dependencies that understanding what broke required looking at the whole system at once.

QMetry walkthrough: Test management, automation & AI-powered testing

Discover how QMetry streamlines test management with this comprehensive walkthrough covering requirements management, test design, test execution, automation, reporting, and AI-powered productivity features. Struggling with disconnected testing processes, manual test execution, and limited visibility into quality across your software development lifecycle? This complete QMetry tutorial shows testers, QA teams, and engineering organizations how to manage the entire testing workflow in a single platform, from requirements to release.

Your AI agent is fixing the wrong service

Everyone wants an AI agent factory in 2026. Autonomous agents fixing bugs and shipping features while you sleep. I’ve been building toward that myself. But the error rates don’t support the fantasy. The best AI coding agents in the world fix about 50% of real bugs on SWE-bench verified. Half the time they fail. And AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human-written code.

API Gateway vs AI Gateway - What Actually Changed?

Kong's AI Gateway applies the same architectural pattern as the API Gateway — now governing LLM, MCP, and agent traffic at the infrastructure layer. Just as API gateways abstracted rate limiting, auth, and caching across microservices, AI gateways do the same for large language models and agents — with token budgets, semantic caching, and semantic routing replacing their REST equivalents. Kong breaks this into three layers: LLM Gateway, MCP Gateway for tool calls, and Agents Gateway for agent-to-agent traffic.#Shorts.

Stateful vs. Stateless Web App Design | DreamFactory

Last updated: May 2026 Stateful applications remember information about previous client interactions. Stateless applications treat every request as independent — no memory between calls. The choice between these two designs shapes how an application scales, how it handles failures, and increasingly how AI agents consume it.