Considerations for Testing gRPC Streams
If you’ve spent any time building cloud-native systems, you’ve probably tripped over the tricky beast that is gRPC streaming. It’s powerful, flexible...
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Shift Left on Performance Testing – Without Killing Developer Velocity
Traditional performance testing often comes late in the delivery cycle, typically just before release.
Under the Hood with Go TLS and eBPF
There are many reasons why you might want to leverage eBPF for plaintext inspection of TLS traffic including security monitoring, debugging, traffic.
Don't Just Monitor SLAs - Validate Them Automatically
Service level agreements (SLAs) are the contractual backbone between customers and technology vendors, outlining expected service availability...
Back in India for KubeCon 2025: Connections, Conversations, and a Sprint Through Delhi — Part 1
Last week, I returned to India for the first time since the beginning of COVID — and what a journey it was!
Peeking Under the Hood of Cursor's API Calls
Cursor is one of the go-to AI-native code editors for developers. Because it’s built on Visual Studio Code, it provides a pretty smooth path between...
Speeding up AI Coding Assistants using Deterministic Feedback
Every engineering leader has seen it: a senior developer is “in the zone”…then Slack pings, CI fails, or an AI suggestion derails everything.
Automating API Mocks in Your CI Pipeline with proxymock
When running tests in a CI/CD pipeline, relying on external APIs can introduce instability, slow down execution, even lead to failed builds due to rate...
From Specs to Reality: True API Testing
Linting - the process of analysing potential issues within your API specification - is a great step towards ensuring that you have strong syntax...