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In software development, load testing plays a critical role in ensuring that applications perform optimally under any imaginable load condition. To do this, developers subject applications to several types of load tests, including scalability, spike, endurance, and stress testing. The ultimate goal of these performance tests is to pinpoint potential bottlenecks and ensure the reliability of the overall system where the software application runs before reaching production.

The modern world runs on mission-critical software. It moves our money, drives our cars, diagnoses our illnesses, and fundamentally improves our lives. But, organizations building this critical software face a paradox: they need to move fast to stay competitive, but they also need rigorous governance to manage risk. This has created a lot of tension in regulated industries.

During the October 20th AWS outage, not one Control Plane customer went down. Here’s the architecture that made that possible, and how to assess your own.

Today marks a big milestone in our mission to bring more data, more context, and more visibility into a single, unified view. We’re excited to announce 16 brand‑new integrations, extending the range of data sources you can connect with just a few clicks. But the integrations themselves are only half the story.

In a modern observability deployment, it’s simple to get data that helps you understand where your system is failing. However, when we try to understand why, the answer is often buried beneath a mound of stack traces. For many developers, attempting to interpret a flame graph by manually calculating self-time (the resources consumed by the function itself) versus child-frame latency (the time spent waiting on called sub-functions) is both confusing and time-consuming.

Imagine you want to launch an application without first building and managing the servers that run it. You write the code, pick how it should run, and then let a platform take care of the rest. That’s the core promise of AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In this snackable guide, you’ll understand AWS Elastic Beanstalk well enough to decide if it belongs in your AWS architecture.

This is a guest post from Saskia Parks. If you're exploring test data management (TDM) solutions, you probably know your current practices aren't ideal, but you're skeptical investing in a solution is worth the budget and effort. We hear the same concerns. The perception is that proper TDM is expensive, complicated, and takes months of painful implementation.

This is a guest post from James Hemson. The January release of Redgate Test Data Manager brings the launch of our free trial, a completely redesigned installation experience, and powerful new workflow capabilities. These updates make it faster to get started and easier to automate your data provisioning pipelines.

This is a guest post from Stephanie Herr. One of Flyway’s biggest strengths is its ability to track your database schema as individual SQL DDL scripts on disk. This gives you full version control over every object, along with a complete audit trail of what changed, who changed it, when it changed, and why. For teams working with Oracle and/or SQL Server, this level of transparency is essential and this latest release provides even more support for how you handle changes across dependent objects.