Shopify Outage 2025: Rise of the Commerce Kaiju
Shopify's infrastructure crumbled in 2025 like a city under a 'Commerce Kaiju' attack.
Posts by Alan Mon
Alan Mon is a contributor to the Speedscale blog. • 9 posts published
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
Record real PostgreSQL traffic with proxymock and replay it deterministically. No more local database setup, no more seeded test data.
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.
Settle Your QA Debt Before the Bugs Start Breaking Kneecaps
Practical strategies to eliminate QA bottlenecks and build resilient testing pipelines
Debugging Without a Net: The Pain of Reproducing Production Issues
Catch the ghost! Learn why reproducing production bugs is so hard, how unrealistic test environments fail you.
MySQL Mocking with Speedscale's Proxymock: A Complete Guide
Record real MySQL traffic with proxymock and replay it in tests. Eliminate local database setup and flaky CI runs.
QA Debt: The Silent Risk That Can Take Down Your Business
Don't let 'QA debt' derail your career and company. Unlike technical debt, this invisible accumulation of missed tests and shortcuts builds silently.
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Thoughts on My First Year at Speedscale
When I started at Speedscale, I looked like this: And after one year of learning, growing, keeping pace with innovation well, let’s just say the journey...
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