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Top API Auth Mistakes (JWT, OAuth, keys)
APIs are the connective tissue of the modern digital world. They power our mobile apps, enable microservices to communicate, and connect us to third-party data. But this central role also makes them a prime target for attackers. While we build powerful functionalities, it's often the simplest oversights in authentication that leave the front door wide open.
ROI of Digital Twin Testing: Cut Testing Costs by 50%
When engineering leaders review their cloud bills, they often focus on production costs—the infrastructure serving real users, processing real transactions, generating real revenue. But there’s a shadow cost lurking in every cloud environment that often goes unnoticed until it becomes painful: non-production infrastructure.
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Digital Twins Gone Wild: My Unexpected AI Doppelgänger
I recently tried using AI to create a digital twin of myself. I uploaded a photo, expecting a futuristic, slightly improved version of me... and what did I get in return? A picture of Kim Jong Un. Clearly, AI has a sense of humor-or a very different definition of "twin." Forget Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. Digital Twins 2-Now Starring My AI Doppelgänger From Speedscale's perspective, a digital twin is built from real production traffic, continuously updated, and executable in your test and CI/CD environments.
New API feature: Status-based filtering for monitors and components
We’ve added a new enhancement to the StatusGator API that makes it faster and easier to identify service issues in real time: status-based filtering for monitors and components.
Moving Our Observability Data Collector from Sidecars to eBPF
For years, the Kubernetes sidecar pattern has been a practical way to capture observability data. Running a collector alongside each application pod gave us deep visibility into traffic, including full request and response payloads across supported protocols. However, as cloud-native environments have grown more complex, the limitations of sidecars—such as resource overhead, operational complexity, and scaling challenges—have become more apparent.
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Mock vs Stub: Essential Differences
When discussing the process of testing an API, one of the most common sets of terms you might encounter are “mocks” and “stubs.” These terms are quite ubiquitous, but understanding exactly how they differ from one another - and when each is the correct method for software testing - is critical to building an appropriate test and validation framework. In this blog, we’re going to talk about the differences and similarities between mocks and stubs.
New API endpoints: Pause and resume website & ping monitors
We’ve added new API capabilities that give you more control over your monitoring workflows – directly from code. You can now pause and resume website and ping monitors via the StatusGator API, exposing the same pause functionality that’s available in the UI.