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Boost Your Workflow with the Ultimate Local Development Mock

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.

Crafting the Best Golang Developer Environments

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.

5 Strategies for Decreasing API Latency and Improving App Performance

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.

Elevating Developer Productivity with Speedscale Ephemeral Environments

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.

Integrate Xray Enterprise with Popular CI/CD Tools for Automated Testing

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become essential for delivering high-quality software at speed - automating testing processes ensures that new code changes are thoroughly validated before reaching production. However, managing these automated tests across multiple CI/CD tools can be challenging. This blog post explores how Xray Enterprise can be seamlessly integrated with popular CI/CD tools to enhance your automated testing workflows.

Optimizing DevOps with Kubernetes Ephemeral Environments: Efficient Testing and Deployment

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.

Join Ken on SMC Journal - Scaling Kubernetes, Microservices, and Ephemeral Environments

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

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.

Top Linux Commands: 11 You Need to Know

If you’re a software developer, you can’t avoid Linux. Created by Linus Torvalds, Linux is the preferred OS for most servers and the environment in which many popular development tools run best. While you don’t need to know everything about Linux, learning the top Linux commands is a valuable investment of your time. With this post, you’ll have a handy guide to the Linux commands most often used.

Isolating Bottlenecks: How to Determine If Your Slowdown Is Due to the Database or API

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.