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Five things your logs will never tell you
A customer escalation hit my queue when I was on the customer smoke jumpers team at an observability vendor. My team was the group that parachutes into Fortune 500 accounts one bad week from churning and usually after a big customer outage. The customer had filed a billing dispute three weeks earlier and their on-call engineers were stuck. They had our full stack: logs, metrics, traces, end-to-end instrumentation, every product we sold and some we didn't. They could see the request came in. They could see it returned a 500. They could not see the body. The trace was sampled out. The log line was truncated at 4KB.
Beware of PII in Testing Data: The Security Iceberg and Where PII Actually Hides
If you run a platform tools or security team, you have likely heard this request from developers: “I just need a copy of the production database for staging so I can run realistic load and integration tests.” It is a completely reasonable request. Production traffic and data contain the actual request shapes, real-world value distributions, long-tail anomalies, and timing patterns that make tests useful.
Build WireMock mappings fast from real traffic
I’m a big fan of service mocking. I’ve been working in and around software for about 25 years, and one thing never changes: when you sit down to work on your code, you almost never have everything available. The database, the third-party API, the message queue, the service two teams over. Something’s missing. So you’ve got to stub it out or mock it out and keep moving.
Dynamic IDs Are Killing Your Replay Tests
Stop dynamic IDs from breaking your integration tests! Tired of manual copy-pasting for IDs in your test cycles? Learn how to use proxymock to help: Check out proxymock.io to get started for free!
The Dreaded 403: Fixing Auth Errors in API Replay
Learn how to resolve the 403 authentication error when replaying API traffic using proxymock. This video demonstrates how to: All tools and demo code are open source and available on GitHub. For more information, visit proxymock.io.