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The Bug Hiding in Your Production Traffic

Your logs showed 500 errors. The traces showed the dependency graph. Neither showed the actual bug, a DEL control character getting appended to the query string. This is how I found it. In this video I walk through Speedscale BYOC (bring your own cloud): capture real production traffic, store it in your own Elasticsearch cluster inside your VPC, pull it down locally with a single script, and reproduce the exact bug using proxymock. The data never leaves your environment.

Gherkin Software Testing: Syntax, Best Practices, and Pitfalls

Gherkin software testing turns plain-English specifications into executable tests your whole team can read, but only when you stop treating it like a scripting language. If your feature files read like step-by-step UI scripts, you're doing BDD testing backward. Here's how to fix that.

Logs told me something broke. Traffic showed me what.

Here’s a problem I run into constantly: something breaks in production, I can see the 500 errors in my logs, but I can’t reproduce it locally. The trace shows me the dependency graph but not the actual request that failed. This is especially painful in microservices. I was looking at a CNCF example the other day (a simple demo app, like 4 pods) and it already had so many cross-service dependencies that understanding what broke required looking at the whole system at once.

Digital Sovereignty, Open Source, and the New Compliance Frontier

In today's operational and regulatory climate, achieving long-term business resilience hinges on digital sovereignty. This video highlights how owning your infrastructure and managing risk are crucial for navigating the digital landscape. We explore the importance of robust business continuity and regulatory compliance in ensuring your organization can adapt and thrive.

AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare Data Analytics: Use Cases, Architecture & Implementation Guide

Healthcare is sitting on a paradox. As per healthcare analytics statistics 2026 It generates more data than any other industry, nearly 30 percent of the world’s total data, yet 97 percent of hospital data still goes unused. That gap is exactly where AI and machine learning in healthcare data analytics are changing the game. We are no longer talking about dashboards or retrospective reports.

Approaching how we adopt AI for test: Exploring Xray's AI Test Case Generation

At Assurity Consulting, our experts are deeply experienced in leveraging a variety of industry-leading Test Management tools, with Xray for Jira being a prominent example in our toolkit. Our commitment, however, extends beyond proficiency in a single platform. Our core approach is fundamentally tool-agnostic, meaning we prioritize the client’s unique context, goals, and technological ecosystem over allegiance to any specific vendor or solution.

QMetry walkthrough: Test management, automation & AI-powered testing

Discover how QMetry streamlines test management with this comprehensive walkthrough covering requirements management, test design, test execution, automation, reporting, and AI-powered productivity features. Struggling with disconnected testing processes, manual test execution, and limited visibility into quality across your software development lifecycle? This complete QMetry tutorial shows testers, QA teams, and engineering organizations how to manage the entire testing workflow in a single platform, from requirements to release.

Your AI agent is fixing the wrong service

Everyone wants an AI agent factory in 2026. Autonomous agents fixing bugs and shipping features while you sleep. I’ve been building toward that myself. But the error rates don’t support the fantasy. The best AI coding agents in the world fix about 50% of real bugs on SWE-bench verified. Half the time they fail. And AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human-written code.