In today's world of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures, ensuring system reliability is more challenging than ever. Downtime can result in significant financial losses, damaged reputations, and frustrated users. Chaos t...

We started building an open-source API platform a few years ago ApiLogicServer. You connect to your database, which generates an API, a front-end, plug in your declarative logic, add security and publish your microservice. When the AI hype started - ...

In today's world of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures, ensuring system reliability is more challenging than ever. Downtime can result in significant financial losses, damaged reputations, and frustrated users. Chaos t...

As artificial intelligence becomes central to modern software from chatbots and recommendation engines to fraud detection and surveillance securing AI powered applications has never been more critical. These systems handle sensitive data, make autono...

Looking to send a notification through a HTTP request? This post suits you then. ntfy.sh1 is an HTTP-based notification service created by Philipp C. Heckel. Using this service, we can send any notifications to devices using HTTP requests, specifica...

Java 8 revolutionized how developers write and think about Java code by introducing functional programming concepts. At the heart of this transformation are Lambda Expressions, Functional Interfaces, and the Streams API. These features together prom...

Most side projects die in localhost purgatory—not because they’re bad ideas, but because we waste weeks over-engineering before validating them. I used to do this too—until I embraced vibe coding. What’s Vibe Coding? Popularized by Andrej Karpathy...

Visual UI Regression Testing is a critical practice in web development that ensures the visual consistency of a user interface UI across updates, browser versions, or devices. This guide explains what it is, why it matters, and how tools like Playwri...

Healenium: Anti-flakiness potion Test automation flakiness is a long-standing headache in UI testing. Selectors break, tests fail, and debugging becomes a frustrating ritual. Enter Healenium — a self-healing solution that enhances Selenium and Appi...

!1 Java, being one of the most widely used programming languages in the world, powers everything from mobile apps to enterprise-scale web applications. With this widespread adoption comes a growing responsibility to ensure that Java applications ...

Hallucinations in Large Language Models: Understanding and Mitigating the Risks Large Language Models LLMs have transformed how we interact with technology, powering everything from chatbots to code generation tools. Yet, they come with a notable c...

The WordPress Drama As the WordPress ecosystem faces unprecedented turmoil, many developers and site owners are reconsidering their platform choices. The recent conflict between WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine has highlighted issu...

Understanding the Screenplay Pattern in Test Automation Test automation often starts simple a few UI actions, maybe a Page Object or two. But as the system grows, maintaining and scaling those tests becomes a real challenge. Enter the Screenplay P...

!1 In this article, I will show you how I automated Git commands using Batch Scripting2 on Windows. As a developer, there are some Git commands that are very fundamental to my work. However, it gets tedious many times when you have to fire up yo...

I have presented my OpenTelemetry demohttps://github.com/nfrankel/opentelemetry-tracing many times, and I still do. Each time, the audience is different. To make no two presentations the same, I always ask attendees what stack they are more intereste...

We all know test is big part of our life, from our gymphysical strength to our lifemental strengthwe are all testing, pushing limits for both ourself and indispensable softwares from smartwatches to siri. But how to be a good tester especially for o...

When building applications that integrate with LLMs to support capabilities such as chatbots and agents capable of natural language communication and autonomous decision making, it’s important to have a clear understanding of how LLM inference runtim...

In today’s DevOps-driven world, speed and security often clash. CI/CD pipelines accelerate delivery, but vulnerabilities can slip through if security isn’t automated. Enter Dastardly, a free Dynamic Application Security Testing DAST tool by PortSwigg...

Appium is one of themaybe number one most popular open-source automation tool for testing mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms. Strong libraries, wide community and documentation support and years of experience across all the QA Engin...

As Software Development Engineers in Test SDETs, we’re no strangers to automation. We build frameworks to validate functionality, performance, and usability. But in today’s threat landscape, security testing can no longer be an afterthought – and ...