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As developers, one of the most important things we can consider when designing and building applications is the ability to know if our application is running in an ideal operating condition, or said another way: the ability to know whether or not your application is healthy. This is particularly important when deploying your application to Kubernetes. Kubernetes has the concept of container probes that, when used, can help ensure the health and availability of your application.

Transactions-per-Second (TPS) is a valuable metric for evaluating system performance and is particularly relevant for engineers overseeing Kubernetes environments.TPS, alongside average response time, provides critical insights into system performance during load testing. This post covers two approaches to calculating TPS; a manual approach applicable in all environments, and an automatic Kubernetes-specific solution using production traffic replication.

It’s 2024; who hasn’t heard of.NET Core, the primary framework developers use to build desktop and web apps? However, if you want to build something impactful, just choosing the right technology isn’t enough. Any major development process requires you to follow certain best practices to ensure that the project you’re building is future-proof. In this article, you’ll find the.NET Core top practices to help you ensure that your application is secure, scalable, and efficient.

At some point, your development team may be considering implementing load testing (also known as stress testing) as part of your software testing process. Load testing validates that your web app is able to withstand a large number of simultaneous users, decreasing the chance that any traffic spikes will bring down your services once deployed. These stress tests can be highly granular, giving you the opportunity to test run virtually unlimited strategies before they are set into the wild.

Digitalization has surpassed network modernization, resulting in networks struggling to keep up with daily operations. While many networks can accommodate GenAI and other new technologies, network administrators are responsible for maintaining uninterrupted operations and preventing any errors. For this, they must diligently monitor network performance and related metrics so their networks remain secure and robust yet flexible enough to adapt to the latest technologies.

Managing large volumes of documents in SharePoint Online can become challenging as storage needs grow. With rising storage costs and limits, organizations often look for efficient ways to offload files. One highly scalable and cost-effective solution is moving documents from SharePoint Online to Azure Blob Storage.

A major problem led Amazon to introduce Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports. Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) users were overspending on services they couldn’t quite identify. Before the two cloud financial management tools, the AWS public cloud was like a buffet menu without prices. Engineers could use as many cloud resources as possible (and then some), only to be hit with surprise bills at the end of the month or billing cycle.

As the name suggests, MockServer is a powerful tool that allows developers to mock HTTP APIs, making it much easier and more efficient to run an integration test in initial development phases. It aims to solve the problem of testing APIs that are still in development or not yet available, allowing developers to make http calls on an http client without a real server.

What do good tests look like, and do you even need a Golang testing framework? It’s a loaded question with an open answer. Not only do tests help ensure that your code will work as intended, but good tests can also serve as documentation for your codebase, making it easier to update and maintain in the future, while accelerating and streamlining your software development process. In this article, we outline 6 Golang testing frameworks for every type of test.