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Leveraging Network Interception with Playwright for End-to-End Monitoring

May 1, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
If you're using Playwright, either on its own or for synthetic monitoring with Checkly, you might have heard about writing Playwright scripts in a user-first manner. This approach focuses on interacting with the UI as a user would, such as clicking buttons or submitting forms, and then waiting for the UI to reflect the changes. However, sometimes you need to intercept and analyze the network layer to verify that your UI is getting the right responses from its supporting API.
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The 4 Biggest Challenges of Scaling Cloud-Native AI Workloads

Apr 30, 2024 By Speedscale In Speedscale
When working with #AI in cloud environments, traditional data provisioning and software testing methods don't work because of the behavior of AI and LLM APIs. In this Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) webinar recording, we discuss the top 4 challenges of scaling cloud-native AI workloads, and the solutions developers are turning to instead.
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Using Visual Regression checks to Make Sure You Never Miss a Problem on Production

Apr 29, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
This webinar introduces an approach to visual regression monitoring, utilizing Playwright and Checkly. Playwright, an open-source end-to-end testing framework supported by Microsoft, enables you to simulate complex paths through your site. Checkly, which uses playwright to create synthetic service monitors, enables the execution of visual regression tests at regular intervals. This combination alerts developers to potential interface problems before they become visible to users.
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statuspal

Why use a status page API and best alternatives

Apr 25, 2024 By Eduardo Messuti In Statuspal
In the digital age, transparency and communication are key to customer satisfaction and operational efficiency, especially during downtime or degraded performance. This is where the importance of a status page comes into play, helping organizations effectively automate these communications, particularly through the use of status page APIs.
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How to narrow and chain your Playwright locators

Apr 25, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
Locating elements in your end-to-end tests can sometimes be a challenge. In this video, we tackle the problem of hard-to-locate elements by chaining multiple locators using `locator().and()`. By chaining locators you'll be able to combine user-first locators with specific locators reaching for a test id or CSS class.
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Cycle

Building Modern REST APIs with OpenAPI

Apr 23, 2024 By Alexander Mattoni In Cycle
No, I'm not talking about 'OpenAI', though you certainly can use it to assist in your API designs. I'm talking about the OpenAPI standard, a modern spec for defining REST APIs. If you're reading this, I probably don't need to tell you that REST APIs are ubiquitous in tech. Practically every company has at least one, whether it be an internal or customer facing API. While other types of APIs have been gaining traction the last few years (GraphQL, gRPC, etc), REST is here to stay.
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checkly

IaC? CI? Shift Left? What do they really mean? - A DevOps Glossary

Apr 22, 2024 By Nočnica Mellifera In Checkly
Look, we've all been there: there's a term, you've heard it one hundred times. You've nodded as others said it in meetings. And now, you've started to say it. The only tiny insignificant problem is that you're not 100% sure what it actually means or how it's different from another similar term. I feel you. So I wrote this DevOps glossary with my highly opinionated definitions of common DevOps industry terms.
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datadog

Lessons learned from running a large gRPC mesh at Datadog

Apr 22, 2024 By Nicholas Thomson In Datadog
Datadog’s infrastructure comprises hundreds of distributed services, which are constantly discovering other services to network with, exchanging data, streaming events, triggering actions, coordinating distributed transactions involving multiple services, and more. Implementing a networking solution for such a large, complex application comes with its own set of challenges, including scalability, load balancing, fault tolerance, compatibility, and latency.
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