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Broken windows: Why the 'Single Pane of Glass' is Impossible

It was only as I started to study information theory that I truly understood how nonsensically the computer worked in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Decades before voice assistants and at a time when only the most basic language parsing existed in practice, the computer on Star Trek could always give you the answer you wanted. No one ever spent any time clicking into multiple windows to find an answer, and the display always gave information that could be easily summarized in words.

How to run your Playwright end-to-end tests in SloMo

Sometimes you want to follow along your Playwright tests without starting a full debugging session. Learn in this video how to slow down your Playwright end-to-end tests, to see and watch exactly what's happening in your testing scripts. Use the "slowMo" launch option configuration to add delays inbetween all Playwright actions. More cool Playwright and Synthetic Monitoring tips coming your way soon!

Microsoft 365 APM Profiles using REST API Monitor and Microsoft Graph API

As of WUG 2022 our REST API monitor supports OAuth 2 Client Credentials allowing a daemon application (non user interactive) to authenticate as an application to the Graph API. Using this new capability we created new APM profile to monitor Microsoft 365 and Office 365.

How to end-to-end test and monitor your login flows with Playwright and Checkly

In this video, Stefan from Checkly demonstrates how to monitor a login and authentication flow using Checkly and Microsoft's Playwright. Stefan guides you through the entire process. If you're interested in end-to-end testing or synthetic monitoring, this video is for you. Drop a question below or leave a comment!

IaC? CI? Shift Left? What do they really mean? - A DevOps Glossary

Look, we've all been there: there's a term, you've heard it one hundred times. You've nodded as others said it in meetings. And now, you've started to say it. The only tiny insignificant problem is that you're not 100% sure what it actually means or how it's different from another similar term. I feel you. So I wrote this DevOps glossary with my highly opinionated definitions of common DevOps industry terms.

The Real Cost of Synthetic User Testing with AWS

Every time I share a project using SaaS tools, someone inevitably responds that they could do the same thing on their own home server ‘for free.’ I mention this not because it is annoying, since I would never go on social media at all if annoying responses were allowed to change my behavior, but because I think it points to a basic misconception that still affects DevOps practitioners today: the refusal to accurately estimate the real costs of self-managed solutions.

Safer Client-Side Instrumentation with Honeycomb's Ingest-Only API Keys

We're delighted to introduce our new Ingest API Keys, a significant step toward enabling all Honeycomb customers to manage their observability complexity simply, efficiently, and securely. Ingest Keys are currently available for Environment & Services customers, with Classic support and programmatic key management capabilities under development and coming soon!