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Part 2: Building a Production-Grade Traffic Capture, Transform and Replay System

Oct 31, 2025 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
When developers try to build realistic mocks and automated tests from production network traffic, the real challenge isn’t just in the capturing—it’s in the data manipulation. Raw traffic is a chaotic sea of patterns, dynamic tokens, environment-specific secrets, and tangled dependencies that seem impossible to untangle by hand. Over my two decades of building these sytems, I learned that solving this problem requires more than brute-force parsing or ad hoc scripts.
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The Load Testing Start Guide! #speedscale #stresstest #loadtesting #mocking #startup

Oct 30, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Are you ready to get serious about load and stress testing, but don't know where to start? This guide highlights the trap most serious engineers fall into: trying to build a custom DIY testing environment. The traditional path means signing your team up for maintaining load drivers, test case frameworks, ephemeral environments, and endless custom mocks a massive drain on time and resources. There's a better, cheaper, and faster solution: Traffic Replay.
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Stop Debugging Blindly! How Traffic Capture Can Help Your Code #speedscale #trafficcapture #ai

Oct 24, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Is AI "slop" or new code pushing tons of bugs into production? You can't test everything forever. Learn how traffic capture is the most efficient way to understand how your code is actually running in the real world. By grabbing data from sidecars, packet captures, or logs, you get the context you need to prevent bugs and improve performance.
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Mitmproxy vs Proxymock: Replaying Traffic for Realistic API Testing

Oct 21, 2025 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
Replaying traffic is a core tool in your toolbox when you need to reproduce a tricky bug or validate how your app behaves. Traffic replay is especially valuable for testing complex software applications that rely on APIs and microservices, where integration and functionality must be thoroughly validated.
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Part 1: Building a Production-Grade Traffic Capture and Replay System

Oct 21, 2025 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
A few years ago I was on call during the Super Bowl. At the time I was working for an observability vendor and one of our customers had an outage caused by a surge in user traffic. But our monitoring system didn’t have enough data to know what went wrong and I sat on a call for 2 hours painfully listening to them spinning up more servers and trying to catch up with the user load.
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Debugging Without a Net: The Pain of Reproducing Production Issues

Oct 20, 2025 By Alan Mon In Speedscale
Every engineer has been there — a late-night page, a broken feature in production, and no clear way to reproduce it. The logs are vague. The metrics look normal. Your local environment works fine. Yet something somewhere is failing for real users. So begins the detective work — debugging a live system with almost no tools, no perfect test data, and no clone of production.
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Your "Technical Debt" is a LIE! Meet QA Debt.

Oct 17, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
The REAL reason your system WILL FAIL. We all talk about technical debt, but QA Debt is the silent killer costing companies millions. It's the accumulation of skipped regression checks, outdated test suites, and ignored production data. The result? Unpredictable, catastrophic outages that can sink your business (and your career!). Learn how to identify and pay down your QA Debt before it's too late. It's not about testing more it's about testing SMARTER.
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MySQL Mocking with Speedscale's Proxymock: A Complete Guide

Oct 15, 2025 By Alan Mon In Speedscale
Testing database-driven applications is notoriously painful. If your app depends on MySQL, you’ve probably spent hours setting up local databases, running migrations, loading data, and then cleaning everything up just to rerun your tests. This repetitive cycle slows development, breaks pipelines, and introduces inconsistency between local and production environments.
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Testing AI Code in CI/CD Made Simple for Developers

Oct 13, 2025 By Srujana Maddula In Speedscale
Generative AI can produce code faster than humans, and developers feel more productive with it integrated into their IDEs. That productivity is only real if CI/CD tests are solid and automated. When not appropriately tested, you may encounter a production issue that you haven't seen before. According to the State of Software Delivery 2025 report, 67% of developers spend more time debugging and resolving security vulnerabilities in code generated by AI. That cancels out the efficient gains that they get from faster AI code generation.
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QA Debt: The Silent Risk That Can Take Down Your Business

Oct 10, 2025 By Alan Mon In Speedscale
In engineering, we talk a lot about technical debt — the shortcuts and compromises made in code that pile up over time. But there’s another kind of debt that’s just as dangerous and far more invisible: QA debt. QA debt is what happens when testing isn’t given the same attention as features, architecture, or performance. It’s the accumulation of missed edge cases, outdated test suites, incomplete automation, or skipped regression checks.
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A Developer's Guide to Improving AI Code Reliability

Oct 3, 2025 By Matt Tanner In Speedscale
You’ve probably been there: your AI coding assistant just generated what looks like a perfect solution to your problem. Decent code quality, reasonable structure, and even some comments. You run it, and… it works. So you ship it. Three weeks later, your production logs are full of 500 errors from edge cases the AI never considered, or worse, you discover the code has been making unvalidated database calls that could have been prevented with basic input sanitization.
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