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Intro to Speedscale

Speedscale is a Y-Combinator backed startup that helps Kubernetes engineering teams build resilient and performant containerized apps. Our production traffic replication platform is a more reliable, cost-effective, and scalable way to test and deliver cloud-native software applications. Unlike other tools, we use agents/sidecars to record and playback sanitized traffic that you see in prod. With Speedscale, engineers can generate load, simulate production conditions, and mock third party backends modeled after real traffic patterns.

Checkly Expands Monitoring Capabilities with Introduction of Heartbeat Checks

Checkly, the leading Monitoring as Code provider, expanded its platform's monitoring capabilities with the introduction of Heartbeat Checks, also known as CRON monitoring or dead man's switches. Also introduced today, Smart Retries is designed to reduce alert fatigue.

Heartbeat Monitoring With Checkly

Today’s a big day at Checkly; we’re thrilled to announce that next to Browser and API checks we released a brand new check type to monitor your apps — say “Hello” to Heartbeat checks! In the realm of software, ensuring uninterrupted functionality is critical. While synthetic monitoring helps you discover user-facing problems early, keeping a close eye on the signals coming from your backend can be just as vital.

Update your synonyms in Elasticsearch: Introducing the synonyms API

In a previous post, we talked about synonyms and their importance for providing a great search experience. Using synonyms improves search results by: Search results need to evolve over time. New items go on sale, new trends change what users search for, and new terms become part of a search domain. Our search experience must evolve as well. As part of evolving our search experience, it's important to keep our synonyms updated.

How to Extract Numerical Values from API Responses

Extracting numerical values from public or private JSON API responses can help you track and analyze data, easily spot trends, and alert on data that is important to your business. If you can passively have this information periodically come to you and if you can receive alert notifications when certain conditions are met, you can avoid checking each metric manually and – obviously – save a ton of time. Synthetic monitoring tools let you do these things automatically.

How to Periodically Extract Webpage Performance Metrics from Browser API

To ensure a good end user experience, smart businesses periodically gather performance data from their websites. They measure the responsiveness and speed of their services to ensure fast and reliable websites. Having a responsive and fast website improves companies’ conversion rates, keeps their reputation intact, and helps increase traffic and revenue. Website monitoring applications help determine whether the website achieves the desired response times and uptimes.