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5 Simple Ways to Leverage Geolocation Data for Your Technology Business
Geolocation is a technology that identifies the exact location of a person or device. It provides the geographic coordinates for a specific area, typically a street address. This technology is now a standard part of our daily lives. We use it to find nearby restaurants, track deliveries, or get directions. Geolocation is the hidden force behind many services we rely on. For technology companies, geolocation provides valuable insights that can improve operations.
Essential KPIs for Software Development: Measure Success Effectively
In almost all industries, a standard set of KPIs helps to guide teams on whether they are doing the right things in the right ways, with the right outcomes. In software development, this has evolved significantly with industry-standard frameworks like DORA metrics (DevOps Research and Assessment), which have been validated across thousands of organizations worldwide. Some development frameworks, such as Agile, have some KPIs baked directly into them.
Peeking Under the Hood with Claude Code
Claude is one of the go-to AI-native code editors for developers. Because it’s a simple chatbot interface housed inside a familiar CLI, it provides a pretty smooth path between traditional IDEs and agentic AI. But what’s actually happening behind the scenes when you ask it to write code, generate a test, or debug an issue? Who and what is it talking to behind the scenes? Can I prevent data leakage or do I need to add another layer to my tin foil hat?
JSONPath & JSON Validation for Web API Monitoring Assertions
Most API monitoring setups still rely on a narrow definition of success: Did the endpoint respond, and did it return a 200 status code? While availability is essential, it’s no longer enough for modern, API-driven systems. In real production environments, APIs frequently return successful HTTP responses with incorrect or incomplete payloads. Authentication endpoints may issue tokens missing required fields. Business-critical APIs may return empty objects instead of valid data.
Online HTTP Clients vs Web API Monitoring: When Each Makes Sense
When teams talk about online HTTP clients, they’re usually referring to quick, browser-based ways to send requests, especially HTTP POST requests, without standing up local tooling or infrastructure. These tools are popular for good reason. They make it easy to submit payloads, test headers, and inspect responses in real time. For developers, QA engineers, and DevOps teams, they’re often the fastest way to answer a simple question: Does this request work?
Monitoring OAuth 2.0 & Secure Web API Authentication Flows
OAuth 2.0 is often treated as a solved security problem; configured once, then forgotten. In reality, OAuth-based authentication is one of the most fragile dependencies in modern API ecosystems. When OAuth breaks, APIs don’t just degrade gracefully; they often fail completely. For DevOps and engineering teams, OAuth 2.0 authentication sits before application logic, before business rules, and before observability inside the service itself.
API Testing vs Web API Monitoring: Postman, Online Tools, and WebView
APIs sit at the core of modern applications. They power mobile apps, connect microservices, and enable third-party integrations, making them critical to performance, reliability, and revenue. That’s why most teams invest heavily in API testing tools like Postman, automated test suites, and online API testers. And yet, production outages still happen. This disconnect (“our APIs were tested, so why did they fail?”) is where confusion between API testing and Web API monitoring begins.
From Postman Collections to 24/7 Web API Monitoring (Step-by-Step)
Postman API test automation is a critical part of modern API development. Teams rely on Postman collections, scripts, and automated tests to validate endpoints, catch functional issues early, and ensure APIs behave correctly during development and CI/CD pipelines. But as APIs move into production, test automation alone leaves important gaps.
Component statuses: Now in the API
The StatusGator API continues to expand with new end points to help support the wide variety of use cases our customers have. We just released two new APIs: In case you missed, it component filtering is one of StatusGator’s most important features, allowing you to filter your service monitor to just the specific products, regions, or features you use. It’s an essential setup step that helps minimize noise.
Load Testing Kafka #speedscale #kafka #loadtesting
Message brokers are a critical component of modern distributed systems, facilitating asynchronous communication between services. Load testing message broker integrations requires special considerations since the interaction patterns differ from traditional HTTP-based APIs. Speedscale provides specialized tooling to help you load test applications that integrate with message brokers by.
AI Prediction for 2026
Every technology cycle comes with hype, backlash, and eventually… utility. AI is shaping up to be no different. As we head into 2026, the conversation is already shifting from “AI will replace everything” to “why isn’t this paying off yet?” This shift is heavily influenced by evolving market trends, as businesses and technologists respond to changes in customer behavior, operational patterns, and broader market conditions that shape expectations around AI.
Digital Innovator 2025 Award from Intellyx #innovation #speedscale #intellyx #digitalinnovation
Thank you to Intellyx and all of those who helped make this possible.
7 Strategies for IT Ops Teams to Monitor and Optimize Real-Time Commodity Pricing Systems for Financial Reliability
Real-time commodity pricing systems have become mission-critical infrastructure for financial institutions, trading desks, and enterprise resource planning operations. As of December 2025, with 72% of trading firms migrating to cloud-native CTRM and ETRM platforms, IT Ops teams face mounting pressure to maintain pricing accuracy, minimize latency, and ensure system resilience during volatile market conditions.
Streamline Code Testing with Proxymock
Tired of complex setups and running out of memory just to test one component? Learn how to use Proxymock (a FREE tool) to solve your biggest testing headache: component isolation! This demo shows you how to record and mock interactions across a complex React, Golang, and PostgreSQL stack, allowing you to find bugs before they ever hit production. In This Demo: This strategy lets you easily isolate components, simulate customer behavior, and ensure quality with lightning-fast local testing.
How to Test Your React Frontend When the Backend Is Offline #speedscale #frontend #backend #coding
Software development is hard, especially when you have to ensure every component works together; it's an integration maze! And running a full stack (like React, Go, and Postgres) on your dev machine often means one thing: running out of memory! The Fix: We'll show you how to use Proxymock to record your components, effectively letting you run the frontend (or any component) completely isolated.
How to Test Your React Frontend When the Backend Is Offline
Picture this: You’ve spent hours perfecting your React component. The animations are smooth, the responsive design works flawlessly, and you’re ready to test the user flow. You click “Submit” and… nothing happens. Or worse, you get a cryptic CORS error. The problem? Your backend isn’t running. Again.
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JWT Rot: Why Traffic Replay Tests Expire #speedscale #jwt #trafficreplay #apitesting #testautomation
Are your traffic replay tests crumbling because of expired tokens? You've got JWT Rot! When recording production traffic for integration or load testing, the embedded JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) often have a short expiration date. Once those tokens expire, your entire test suite fails, rendering your valuable traffic snapshots useless. Stop wasting time re-recording traffic. Learn how to defeat JWT Rot and ensure your security and API tests run reliably every time!
HTTP API vs REST API vs Web API: Architectures & How to Monitor Them
APIs power everything. From login flows to checkout systems to internal microservice communication. But as teams scale, so does the confusion around the terminology: HTTP API vs REST API vs Web API. Many articles treat these as interchangeable, but the differences are real, and they affect reliability, performance, caching behavior, authentication flows, and ultimately how you monitor your endpoints.
How Exchange Uptime and API Reliability Impact Crypto Trading Success
Crypto trading is fast-paced, data-dependent, and highly sensitive to system performance. Yet many new investors focus on fees, coin variety, or user experience long before examining a platform's uptime or API reliability. In reality, the technical stability of an exchange is one of the most important factors influencing trade execution, risk management, and overall user safety. Understanding how uptime and backend reliability affect your outcomes can help you choose the right platform and protect yourself during periods of high market volatility.
What I Learned From Building an eBPF-Based Traffic Capture Application
I just finished building Speedscale’s eBPF-based component to capture and analyze network traffic in a Kubernetes cluster, and it forced me to confront some uncomfortable truths about observability. While there were certainly some challenges along the way, particularly in dealing with Go applications, the approach was relatively straightforward.
Building dbRosetta Part 5: We Need an API
Because I don’t want to have to fight with our support team (they’re awesome, but busy) I decided that, initially, I’m going to host dbRosetta at ScaryDBA.com. I have full control of the web site, and I won’t be breaking Redgate Software entirely if I accidently do something silly. Before starting the process of developing our next prompt, or set of prompts, I discussed the project with CoPilot. We agreed to break the next part into two pieces.
How an Online Translation Platform Can Simplify Global Expansion
Global expansion has become a top objective for businesses of all kinds, from ambitious startups entering their first international market to established firms launching new regional offices. However, going global is not just about releasing a product in another country. It's a complicated process that demands a thorough awareness of new audiences, cultural nuances, legal constraints, and, above all, language. That's when an online translation platform evolves from a simple tool to a key driver of worldwide growth.
Ultimate Guide to DevOps API Monitoring for Modern SaaS Teams
APIs form the operational backbone of SaaS platforms. They authenticate users, deliver application data, process transactions, and connect multiple services into a cohesive ecosystem. When an API slows down or fails, the impact is immediate: login delays, frozen dashboards, broken customer workflows, and degraded user experience. For DevOps teams, this means monitoring must go far beyond checking status codes.
Web API Sample Endpoints to Practice Monitoring & Testing
APIs rarely fail in isolation. They fail under load, during token refresh, when a dependent service slows down, or when a multi-step workflow breaks halfway through. And yet most engineers still test and monitor APIs using mock endpoints that behave nothing like the real thing.
Ephemeral Environment Testing: Do you need it?
Traditional testing methods often delay the software development lifecycle, as we have grown used to these outdated processes without considering alternatives. Ephemeral environments introduce a more efficient solution. They allow for the quick creation and dismantling of isolated testing environments. These isolated environments approach leads to faster and more productive development cycles while still delivering high-quality software to users.
Shopify Outage 2025: Rise of the Commerce Kaiju
It was a normal day in the land of eCommerce. Birds were singing, dashboards were loading, and merchants everywhere felt cautiously optimistic. Then the ground trembled. A tiny glitch. A flicker. A warning log no one read. And suddenly— BOOM! Shopify burst out of the digital ocean like a gigantic scaly beast that woke up on the wrong side of the server rack. Checkouts froze mid-purchase. Product pages stopped producting. Merchants stared blankly at blank screens. The Commerce Kaiju had arrived.
Is It Time to Migrate? A Practical Look at Kubernetes Ingress vs. Gateway API
If you’ve managed traffic in Kubernetes, you’ve likely worked with Ingress controllers. For years, Ingress has been the standard way to expose HTTP and HTTPS services. But in practice, it often came with trade-offs. Controller-specific annotations were required to unlock critical features, the line between infrastructure and application responsibilities was unclear, and configurations often became tied to the implementation rather than the intent.
Introducing our new service monitor APIs
We’re pleased to announce new enhancements to the StatusGator API platform that make it easier to automate how you monitor third-party services. The new Service Search, Create Service Monitor, and Update Service Monitor endpoints give developers more control over how monitors are created, labeled, and maintained across projects and environments. These APIs are designed for teams that integrate StatusGator into their deployment processes, internal tooling, or infrastructure automation.
How to Write a Cover Letter That Actually Helps You Get the Job
Cover letters are supposed to help you shine, but most of them blur together into the same polite, forgettable paragraphs. The intention is good (“I want them to notice me!”), but the execution… not so much. So, here’s a simple, honest guide to writing a cover letter that actually works, especially if you’re applying to Checkly. Spoiler: shorter is better. And authenticity in this AI era is better than perfect polished perfection.