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Cascading Failures Aren't Inevitable: Lessons from the AWS DNS Outage

Nov 3, 2025 By Alan Mon In Speedscale
AWS outages grab headlines because they affect millions, but the root cause often comes down to something invisible: DNS failures and cascading service dependencies. The complexity of modern cloud systems, combined with the advanced technology powering platforms like AWS, makes these outages particularly challenging to diagnose and resolve.
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Kafka Service Bundle: Managed Apache Kafka Without Lock-In

Nov 3, 2025 By Perforce In Perforce
Apache Kafka delivers unmatched performance for real-time data streaming — but managing it in-house requires deep expertise. That’s where OpenLogic’s Kafka Service Bundle comes in. This managed Apache Kafka solution helps enterprises simplify operations, control costs, and maintain full ownership of their data — without the vendor lock-in of commercial clouds. Key benefits: With OpenLogic, your business gets the freedom and flexibility of open source Kafka — supported by the expertise and reliability enterprises depend on.
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15 Best DevOps Tools for Software Teams [Free Evaluation Template]

Nov 3, 2025 By Katalon In Katalon
DevOps is a practice, not a tool, but tools are needed to implement it. Breaking down walls of communication and creating visibility and trust across all the teams involved in delivering software and technology is challenging. The right tools make the automation and integrations needed across functional teams seamless, open, and scalable. This article looks at the top CI/CD, automation, orchestration, and other DevOps pipeline tools to give you a detailed list of our Top 15 DevOps tools in 2025.
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What Is An API Endpoint? (Complete Guide For Developers & Qa Testers)

Nov 3, 2025 By Himanshu Mandhyan In Keploy
An API endpoint is a defined URL or path where an API accepts a request from the client, such as a web app, mobile app, automation script, or AI agent, and sends back a response. It serves as the official communication point between the frontend and backend. In other words, if an API is a restaurant, then the endpoint is the exact table where we take your order.
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Performance Testing and Artificial Intelligence (2/2)

Nov 2, 2025 By Stephen Jenkins In OctoPerf
If you recall part one of this blog post, we were going to use ChatGPT in parallel with how we would work to cover these aspects of performance testing. We left the first part of this blog post at the point at which we had compared Requirements Gathering and Risk Assessment, we will pick this post up by looking at Script Creation before concluding with Results Analysis. Our performance testing tool of choice will be JMeter.
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Performance Testing and Artificial Intelligence (1/2)

Nov 1, 2025 By Stephen Jenkins In OctoPerf
If you believe many articles online you would believe that automation in testing will soon be defined, managed and executed by Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is embedded in many organisations technology landscape and to think that this model will change is shortsighted. AI is here to stay undoubtedly in one form or another, but should it be responsible for the automated testing of your applications under test?
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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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Playwright - Future of Web Automation | Vignesh Srinivasa Raghavan | TTTribeCast Webinar

Oct 31, 2025 By The Test Tribe In The Test Tribe
Selenium has been the trusted name in web automation for years, offering broad compatibility and flexibility. Cypress revolutionized front-end testing with a developer-friendly experience. But as web applications become more complex, is there a better alternative?
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