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January 2025

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Using Python MockServer for API Testing

Jan 30, 2025 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
Using a mock server is a popular method of working around these limitations and realities, allowing you to test web server assets against specific requests, ensuring that your response data matches the expected outcome. Today, we’re going to look at a powerful solution for Python clients in the form of MockServer. We’ll walk through the tool’s basics and learn how to use it for your own testing.
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Ephemeral Environment Testing: Do you need it?

Jan 28, 2025 By Kush Mansingh In Speedscale
Traditional testing methods often delay the software development lifecycle, as we have grown used to these outdated processes without considering alternatives.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.
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Intro to proxymock, a free traffic-based service mocking tool within VS Code.

Jan 22, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Speedscale's proxymock is a free VS Code plugin that passively listens to transactions, so developers can replay past responses or inbound transactions like a time machine. Past transactions can serve as non-rate-limited service mocks, editable databases, or even regression/load/chaos tests. Building service mocks to serve as service virtualization/mocks can be time consuming and manual. Maintaining complex, shared environments for engineering incurs expensive cloud costs and aren't often accurate.
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Ultimate Guide to Creating a JSON Mock API for Testing

Jan 21, 2025 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Using a JSON mock allows you to avoid using fake data or simulating interactions, resulting in better final output and stronger data flows. Today, we’re going to dive into the process of creating a mock API using JSON data and tools like JSON-server. This guide will help you understand the basics of this process and get started quickly with your own mock API, allowing you to speed up development and testing without relying on a live backend.
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What Are Cloud Development Environments?

Jan 14, 2025 By Josh Thornton In Speedscale
Especially, if you have a globally distributed team, CDEs give you a smoother developer experience just by its online nature. Instead of wrestling with conflicting dependencies, trudging with inconsistent local setups, or waiting for your code to compile, you have a powerful, instantly accessible development environment in the cloud. CDEs remove typical limitations like hardware and scalability.
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Essential KPIs for Software Development: Measure Success Effectively

Jan 10, 2025 By Nate Lee In Speedscale
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 is something that can sometimes go untouched, allowing ourselves and fellow developers to continually work on our code and platforms without making sure we are paying attention to what matters. Some development frameworks, such as Agile, have some KPIs baked directly into them. For example, when calculating your team's story point velocity, you likely establish a benchmark after a few sprints, which becomes a team KPI to meet or exceed.
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Orchestrated Service Virtualization: The Definitive Guide

Jan 8, 2025 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Software development requires a lot of things to be highly optimized due to the sheer number of parts and the interconnected nature of those parts. Making your service seamless, efficient, and scalable requires tooling that is itself seamless, efficient, and scalable. As organizations have moved to adopting microservices and distributed cloud-native solutions, being able to effectively scale resources and the systems which operate upon those resources has been made even more critical.
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7 Best Service Virtualization Tools of 2025

Jan 7, 2025 By Nate Lee In Speedscale
Service virtualization tools have become indispensable for organizations seeking to streamline their testing and development processes. These tools allow teams to simulate the behavior of critical software components, enabling more rapid development with overall cost reduction and improved collaborative outcomes. As demand mounts for service virtualization solutions, identifying the best tools to support this workflow in the software development lifecycle has never been so important.
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What is Traffic Mirroring: A Complete Guide

Jan 6, 2025 By Kush Mansingh In Speedscale
Ensuring seamless data flow and robust application performance is crucial in modern networking and cloud computing. Traffic mirroring enables enhanced network observability, allows for effective troubleshooting, and facilitates the testing of new features without interrupting live traffic. It captures and replicates network traffic, providing a powerful solution for maintaining and optimizing network operations.
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Mock vs Stub: Essential Differences

Jan 2, 2025 By Nate Lee In Speedscale
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.
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What does OOMKilled mean and how do I prevent it?

Jan 1, 2025 By Shaun Duncan In Speedscale
When creating production-level applications, enterprises want to ensure the high availability of services. This often results in a lengthy development process that requires extensive testing for the applications or a new release. This involves testing the behavior of the application under load, measuring the performance metrics, and accounting for the resource consumption. All this is done to ensure that the application does not behave unexpectedly when being used by clients.
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