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August 2024

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Simulating Database Performance Under Load with Speedscale

Aug 30, 2024 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Big data storage tools like BigQuery, Hadoop, and Cassandra are used to manage large volumes of structured and unstructured data generated by modern applications. Unlike traditional databases, these tools provide scalable and distributed infrastructure that efficiently stores, processes, and analyzes petabytes of data across clusters.
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The 6 Best Performance Testing Tools

Aug 29, 2024 By Nate Lee In Speedscale
In software development, load testing plays a critical role in ensuring that applications perform optimally under any imaginable load condition. To do this, developers subject applications to several types of load tests, including scalability, spike, endurance, and stress testing. The ultimate goal of these performance tests is to pinpoint potential bottlenecks and ensure the reliability of the overall system where the software application runs before reaching production.
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Top 14 Postman Alternatives

Aug 28, 2024 By Rexford Nyarko In Speedscale
Postman has long been a go-to tool for API developers and QA engineers in providing a streamlined environment for testing and documenting APIs. Its user-friendly interface and robust features made it an industry standard. However, Postman isn’t suitable for everyone. Its complexity has increased over the years, leading to a UI that can be overwhelming, and a steep learning curve – especially for beginners.
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Boost Your Workflow with the Ultimate Local Development Mock

Aug 27, 2024 By Nate Lee In Speedscale
The benefits of API mocking extend beyond just speeding up development. It enables developers to work independently of external APIs, eliminating delays caused by dependencies that may be out of their control. This independence is crucial for maintaining workflow efficiency, especially in complex projects involving multiple APIs. API mocking is invaluable for testing edge cases and error scenarios that might be difficult to reproduce with a live API.
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Crafting the Best Golang Developer Environments

Aug 26, 2024 By Nate Lee In Speedscale
Go is an open-source programming language and developer environment from Google that allows for incredibly efficient and powerful applications. Go’s expressive syntax enables developers to write clean, efficient, concise code, allowing faster development cycles and easier maintenance. Whether you’re developing complex distributed systems or lightweight microservices, Go and its powerful libraries provide the tools necessary to create robust and scalable solutions.
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5 Strategies for Decreasing API Latency and Improving App Performance

Aug 23, 2024 By Shaun Duncan In Speedscale
Application performance can make the difference between retaining or losing customers, with delays beyond a few seconds leading to dropped conversions. Performance testing and monitoring are vital for improving the overall user experience, achieving a competitive advantage, enhancing resource efficiency, enabling scalability, and reducing costs.
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Elevating Developer Productivity with Speedscale Ephemeral Environments

Aug 22, 2024 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
Speedscale leveraged Ephemeral / Preview Environments to help balance developer productivity and high-quality code by dynamically spinning mini-staging environments up and down on command for experimentation and deployment safety. The primary goals of the project were to reduce cloud infrastructure operating costs and increase deployment frequency. Benefits included speed, resource efficiency, and improved collaboration.
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Optimizing DevOps with Kubernetes Ephemeral Environments: Efficient Testing and Deployment

Aug 21, 2024 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Ephemeral environments transform software development by providing temporary, isolated spaces for testing and deploying microservices without affecting production. Given its robust orchestration capabilities, Kubernetes excels at creating these temporary environments, allowing teams to efficiently manage and scale containerized applications. By integrating tools like Helm and Kustomize, developers can maintain a codified version of their app and its dependencies.
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Join Ken on SMC Journal - Scaling Kubernetes, Microservices, and Ephemeral Environments

Aug 16, 2024 By Nate Lee In Speedscale
Check out Ken Ahrens and Scott Moore as they discuss some blockers of developer productivity when building in Kubernetes, and how removing environment and data challenges can reduce toil and frustration! You can catch the full podcast on Scott’s page here: Scott Moore: Hey everybody out there in internet meme land. It’s time to hide your kids and hide your wife because it’s time for the SMC Journal podcast. Some of you will get that joke. Others will not.
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Top 5 WireMock Alternatives

Aug 13, 2024 By Samuel Umoren In Speedscale
WireMock is a popular open source tool for simulating APIs in testing environments through the wiremock server in the wiremock cloud. It allows developers to stub HTTP responses, match requests by URL, headers, and body content, record and play back API interactions, and add configurable delays and errors. Initially created for Java, WireMock now supports multiple programming languages and technology stacks, making it a favorite among developers for its flexibility and ease of use.
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Isolating Bottlenecks: How to Determine If Your Slowdown Is Due to the Database or API

Aug 12, 2024 By Fortune Adekogbe In Speedscale
Every slowdown in your application can be traced to specific components like a database or an API, and quickly identifying the source aids the troubleshooting process. But when an API is underperforming, it may be difficult to tell whether the issue is with the API logic itself or an external service like a database that it interacts with before sending responses.
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