Why Fable 5 is an Existential Crisis
#fable5 #softwareengineer #testing #softwaretesting
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Modern Software Development For Today's Systems & Applications
AI writes code in seconds, but delivery still takes days
The pitch for AI coding was speed. Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, whatever you’re running, they all generate business logic faster than you can review it. That part is real. But look at what happens after the code gets written and the numbers get ugly. CircleCI’s 2026 State of Software Delivery Report found AI drove a 59% increase in average throughput.
How to Trace Microservices WITHOUT OpenTelemetry
Learn how to trace complex multi-hop transactions across microservices when OpenTelemetry isn't available or trace parents get lost. This quick tutorial demonstrates how to use full-text search in proxymock (a free CLI and UI tool) to isolate user journeys (like looking up a specific username) and instantly generate waterfall tracing views. Whether you are working locally or in a Kubernetes cluster, you can record API traffic, visualize multi-hop requests, and easily transition those captures into load or regression tests.
The Trace Nobody Can Seem to Get #speedscale #softwareengineer #developer #coding #tech
This video explains how to trace a user through older or inaccessible services using identifiable information like emails or usernames when OpenTelemetry traces are unavailable.
Congrats on Your Promotion to QA Engineer #speedscale #coding #vibecoding #softwareengineer #devops
A new Google white paper suggests that as AI writes the majority of our code, the role of a software engineer is shifting from writing applications to performing rigorous validation and QA.
Identify PII in Your Test Data Instantly #speedscale #pii #testdata #dataprivacy #kubernetes
We demonstrate how to stream realistic test data directly from a production environment to developers and AI models without exposing any personally identifiable information (PII).
How to Find and Detect PII in Your Kubernetes Traffic Data Lake
This video demonstrates how to use the ProxyMock web tool to record API traffic from a remote Kubernetes cluster and automatically scan it for hidden PII to ensure the data is safe for developers to use.
The API tests passed. The database didn't.
We shipped v2 of a small products API on a Thursday. Green CI. Green replay. The new search endpoint worked. I went home feeling competent. Friday morning I ran the same traffic against both builds with proxymock and compared the SQL. v2 had added 80 queries on the same HTTP script. A per-product audit COUNT was firing inside the list handler. A startup migration had run ALTER TABLE and CREATE TABLE audit_log. Total DB time was up 70 ms on a demo that should have been boring.
Trace without traces
A customer emailed on a Tuesday: checkout hung for ten seconds. I opened our tracing tool, punched in the time window, and got nothing. The trace was sampled out. We keep 1% of traces, like most shops with real traffic do. The one request that actually mattered was in the 99% we threw away. I spent twenty minutes admiring our observability stack before admitting it couldn’t answer a first-grader’s question: what happened to this person? Here’s what I know now.
Are production bugs ruining your life? #speedscale #devops #kubernetes #production #cicd
Tired of outage after outage? Use traffic replay to automatically generate regression tests for your CI pipeline in just a few clicks. Take back your time! Read more at speedscale.com.