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Scalability Testing Best Practices

Will your software perform well during peak hours? Can it handle the load during sales periods? Is your infrastructure valid if you double your sales by the end of the year? These are just some of the questions that scalability testing can help you answer. Scalability testing evaluates the activity level of your application by upscaling and downscaling the number of users.

Feature Spotlight: Centralized Log Collection

Speedscale is proud to announce its Centralized Log Collection capability. When diagnosing the source of problems in your API, more information is better. For most engineers, the diagnosis process usually starts with the application logs. Unfortunately, logs are usually either discarded or stored in Observability systems that engineers don’t have direct access to. Compounding this issue is that the log information is typically not correlated to what calls were made against the API.

What is DevOps Testing?

The goal of DevOps is to streamline and automate your whole software delivery lifecycle. A successful DevOps testing plan for most businesses begins with implementing the agile best practice of Continuous Integration (CI), in which developers check code into a common repository numerous times per day. DevOps test engineers are team members that are in charge of testing in a DevOps setting.

A Developer's Guide to Continuous Performance Testing

One of the most important phrases of DevOps practices is “Test early, test often.” It’s crucial to perform functional testing early with unit tests and integration tests. But it’s equally important to perform non-functional testing. That means you should have performance tests. As markets become more saturated with each passing day, you no longer have the luxury to postpone performance testing until all features are developed.

New survey highlights ongoing tension between speed and quality in DevOps

Faced with skyrocketing consumer expectations and rapid industry shifts, 54% of development teams are struggling to keep up with software delivery. While organizations are turning towards automated testing to help bridge the gap between speed and quality, 64% of DevOps teams are struggling to find the talent needed to support those initiatives.

How to Deploy ASP.NET Core to IIS & How ASP.NET Core Hosting Works

Previously, we discussed the differences between Kestrel vs IIS. In this article, we will review how to deploy an ASP.NET Core application to IIS. Deploying an ASP.NET Core app to IIS isn’t complicated. However, ASP.NET Core hosting is different compared to hosting with ASP.NET, because ASP.NET Core uses different configurations. You may read more about ASP.NET Core in this entry. On the other hand, IIS is a web server that runs on the ASP.NET platform within the Windows OS.

gRPC Observability and Testing using the Speedscale CLI

gRPC is a remote procedure call framework that has been widely adopted among cloud native applications. It is an attractive choice for engineers needing more capabilities than what REST APIs provide. However, observability and testing tools for gRPC are few and far between. Because of this, triaging or understanding application behavior is potentially time-consuming and overly burdensome.