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Take your first steps with the Aiven API and Postman - and this handy step-by-step guide.

Intellyx, the first and only analyst firm dedicated to digital transformation, today announced that Speedscale has won the 2022 Digital Innovator Award. This is Speedscale’s second year winning the award. As an industry analyst firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the leading edge vendors that are driving it, Intellyx interacts with numerous innovators in the enterprise IT marketplace.

Today marks a new era for Raygun. With the launch our new Public API, you’ll be able to use the powerful metrics surfaced in Raygun in exciting new ways. This is our first step towards being API first, so watch for future developments. At Raygun, we pride ourselves on delivering invaluable customer-centric insights into the health of your software.

The holiday shopping season is one of the most stressful periods for operators of retail and ecommerce businesses, as the seasonal surge of holiday shoppers can put massive amounts of stress and strain on even the most well-architected websites. Here’s a recent example from 2021: The Office Depot website suffered an outage during Cyber Monday that knocked the online shop offline for hours, impacting the ability of customers to place orders online.

One of the major factors that come into play when deciding on a load testing tool is whether it can perform as you expect it to. There are many ways to measure how well a load testing tool performs, with the amount of requests per second undoubtedly being one of the main ways. Speedscale creates load tests from recorded traffic, so generating load is at the core of the tool.

I joined Checkly a few months ago, and because our platform enables you to use Microsoft’s Playwright to run your synthetic monitoring, I started getting my hands dirty with the end-to-end testing framework. I’m a massive fan of learning in public, so I started publishing weekly Playwright tips on YouTube. Did you miss a few videos? Don’t sweat it! Here’s the first collection of Playwright tricks I discovered over the last few months.

An API is an important feature to look for when it comes to making cloud purchasing decisions. Here's why.

Properly testing a service’s APIs to ensure that it can handle production traffic presents many challenges for engineers—SREs need to guarantee the resiliency of their application, while developers must ensure that their features perform well at any given scale. Speedscale is a testing framework built for Kubernetes applications that enables you to load test with real-world production scenarios by replaying actual API traffic that your application has experienced.