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Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices
Martin Thwaites introduces outside-in testing, how to use Observability techniques in a local development to build applications that are easier to debug locally and run as a first class citizen.
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Deconstructing an Abstraction to Reconstruct an Outage
Chris Sinjakli explores the aftermath of a complex outage in a Postgres cluster, retracing the steps taken to reliably reproduce the failure in a local environment.
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The Scientific Method for Testing System Resilience
Christina Yakomin discusses the Scientific Method, and how Vanguard draws inspiration from it in their resilience testing efforts, covering the "Failure Modes and Effects Analysis" technique.
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Analyzing Codebases for Fun and Profit
Jordan Bragg discusses using entry-points, breadth-first scanning, and operation tagging to demystify the domain, see where to dive deeper, and uncover what technical debt may exist.
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Reversible Debugging with RR
Felix Klock discusses RR, a native code debugger, its features, design, and deploying targets, debugging a Rust program running on AWS.
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The Journey to Continuous Testing in DevOps
The panelists discuss their journey integrating quality into development, including the obstacles they faced, how they managed the change, and their plans to integrate testing deeper into development.
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Measuring Value Realization through Testing in Production
The panelists discuss what are the best patterns for testing in production and how testing in production can provide feedback that can be built back into the continuous delivery lifecycle of DevOps.
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User Simulation for Rapid Outage Mitigation
Carissa Blossom walks through the monitoring service that Uber developed to identify issues in production, and how they leveraged composable integration tests to cut the time to mitigation in half.
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A Sticky Situation: How Netflix Gains Confidence in Changes
Haley Tucker discusses sticky canaries, what they are and how they can help, and how to build confidence in changes.
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Painless JavaScript Testing with CodeceptJS
Michael Bodnarchuk introduces CodeceptJS, a JS testing meta-framework meant to simplify end-to-end testing.
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Exploring the Chrome Debugger Protocol for Test Authoring
Benjamin Gruenbaum discusses the DevTools (debugger) protocol and how the DOM, JavaScript and the DevTools communicate, plus applications for test authoring.
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Testing Software Architecture
Vladik Khononov discusses testing the architecture of a system, covering what makes a good architecture, identifying a big ball of mud, an exhausted architecture, and automating such tests.