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JWT Rot: Why Traffic Replay Tests Expire #speedscale #jwt #trafficreplay #apitesting #testautomation

Are your traffic replay tests crumbling because of expired tokens? You've got JWT Rot! When recording production traffic for integration or load testing, the embedded JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) often have a short expiration date. Once those tokens expire, your entire test suite fails, rendering your valuable traffic snapshots useless. Stop wasting time re-recording traffic. Learn how to defeat JWT Rot and ensure your security and API tests run reliably every time!

Bitbucket: The Next Generation | Bitbucket | Atlassian

Today’s software development landscape is changing rapidly with the rise of AI, and Atlassian is reimagining how Bitbucket empowers teams to thrive in this new era. We’ve invested deeply to take Bitbucket to the next level, helping developers and leaders alike ship quality code faster, improve productivity, and collaborate seamlessly. Join us as we share all the exciting new innovations we’ve recently launched, as well as what we’re building for the future, including Data Residency. We’ll cover.

Fresh from AWS re:Invent: Supercharging HAProxy Community with AWS-LC Performance Packages

The timing couldn’t have been better. Last week, the tech world descended on Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent. It was the perfect venue to talk about cloud infrastructure, scale, and the future of application delivery. While we enjoyed talking shop at our booth, we didn't just bring swag and demos; we brought a significant performance improvement for our open-source community.

OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry Proposes Changes to Stability, Releases, and Semantic Conventions

Over the past year, the Governance Committee ran user interviews and surveys with organizations deploying OpenTelemetry at scale. A few patterns came up consistently: Stability levels aren't always obvious. When you install an OTel distribution, some components might be experimental or alpha without clear markers. This makes it harder to evaluate what's production-ready. Instrumentation libraries sometimes wait on semantic conventions.

SaaS Architecture Fundamentals: Design Principles, Best Practices, And Examples

As an engineer, engineering leader, or CTO, your architectural choices shape how fast your team builds products and how efficiently you manage technology costs. Your architecture determines how much control you have over data, infrastructure, and customization. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model is one of the most common ways to deliver software reliably to users anywhere.

How to Handle Cloud Monitoring Overload?

Reduce alert noise by 70% through intelligent aggregation, clear ownership boundaries, and filtering metrics that don't map to user-facing issues. Monitoring starts with a straightforward goal: understand your system's health and identify issues before users notice them. You set up metrics, create dashboards, and configure some alerts. At first, it works well. Over time, your stack gets bigger and more complicated. New services get added.

SQL Compare & SQL Data Compare v16: Introducing SQL Server 2025 Support, Enhanced Security & More

SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare v16 introduces SQL Server 2025 support and improved credential security. Plus, SSMS 22 integration is coming soon. We have just released a new major version of SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare – version 16. This major version has two big items and one coming soon.