When Your Observability Literally Stops Traffic
Observability tells you what failed—but not how to recreate it. Why reproducibility is the missing fourth pillar, and what that means for incident response.
Posts by Alan Mon
Alan Mon is a contributor to the Speedscale blog. • 9 posts published
Prompt, Deploy, Pray Is Dead: Validating AI Code with Proxymock
AI-generated code is moving fast—but without behavioral validation, you're gambling with production stability. See how Proxymock changes the equation.
The Ultimate Stress Test: Kim Jong Un, a Parachute, and a Multi-Billion Dollar Prop Bet
From memes to market meltdowns: Explore how a multi-billion dollar Super Bowl prop bet involving Kim Jong Un pushed prediction markets and SRE teams to.
The CES Hangover: 3 Expensive Hardware Fails That Were Actually Software Problems
Stop letting third-party API spikes crash your app. Learn why mocking latency for OpenAI, Anthropic.
Digital Twins Gone Wild: My Unexpected AI Doppelgänger
Tired of Staging environments that don't match Prod? Learn how Speedscale's Digital Twin, built from real production traffic, solves dependency.
Shopify Outage 2025: Rise of the Commerce Kaiju
Shopify's infrastructure crumbled in 2025 like a city under a 'Commerce Kaiju' attack.
KubeCon Retrospective: Platform Engineering Needs to Do More Testing
Learn how digital twins and traffic replay, highlighted at kubecon, offer platform engineering teams a 'superpower' to test against real-world scenarios.
Mocking PostgreSQL the Easy Way: Simplifying Testing with Speedscale Proxymock
Simplify PostgreSQL testing instantly. Replace slow, fragile database setups with Speedscale Proxymock.
Cascading Failures Aren’t Inevitable: Lessons from the AWS DNS Outage
The AWS DNS outage exposed the risk of cascading failures. Learn how to prevent a single DNS failure from taking down your system by mapping service.
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