Pyroscope + Proxymock to Solve Performance Problems
This video provides a step-by-step demonstration of how to record an application's real-world traffic and generate an automated sandbox environment for debugging and testing.
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Cut AI coding defects by 33% #mcpserver #aicoding #aiagents #grafana #aitools
We spend thousands of dollars "token maxing" and running endless debugging cycles just to walk our LLMs through a problem. But is the AI actually failing, or are we just withholding the right environment? Giving your AI assistant its own sandbox to test hypotheses might just be the missing link in your development workflow.
The best ways to visualize API responses in 2026
APIs power almost everything we use today, from cloud platforms and monitoring tools to ticketing systems and internal applications. But no matter how useful an API is, the response usually arrives as raw JSON. That's perfectly fine for machines, but much less convenient for people. Whether you're debugging an endpoint, exploring a new service, or building dashboards for your team, you'll probably want a better way to visualize that data. Fortunately, there are several ways to visualize API responses.
Stop Writing Log Lines: Use eBPF to Catch PII and Credentials
Tired of out-of-control log expenses and manual logging discipline? Discover next-generation observability with Speedscale. By using eBPF to record full-fidelity data right off the wire, you can instantly run full-text searches, track down leaking PII, and securely map out credentials across HTTP, Postgres, gRPC, and more—all without writing a single log line. Learn more: speedscale.com.
CLIs are more token-efficient than MCP. Or are they?
MCP servers have a reputation: they eat your context window. CLIs paired with skills, on the other hand, are more token efficient. But is this still true? I dropped all my MCP servers five months ago. Five months is a long time in AI land. When Anthropic came up with the concept of skills, many people stopped using MCP servers in favor of CLI tooling and skills.
Fighting AI Slop: The Missing Ingredient for Clean Code #coding #AI #devops #cleancode #aiagents
Fighting AI Slop: The Missing Ingredient for Clean Code.
Your AI Agent Can Now Debug Playwright Tests
Playwright 1.59 added a `cli` parameter to the `--debug` flag, and this enables your coding agent to use the built-in step-through debugger. Step through the test steps, inspect network traffic at every moment, and access the accessibility tree. The same debugger is now usable without the inspector window.
eBPF: Preventing Garbage HTTP Payloads When Reading Kernel Scatter-Gather Buffers
Recently someone on our team opened a traffic snapshot and found an HTTP request that was captured with our eBPF capture agent, nettap. Our protocol dissector parsed most of the response correctly, but that correctness ended once the response headers were processed. What they ended up with was a recording of an HTTP request/response where the response body was just an incorrect collection of garbage binary data when it should have been JSON text.
