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Speedscale
Company blog · speedscale.comprogrammingdata
Speedscale is the company blog at speedscale.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Product site for Speedscale, which records live traffic to auto-generate tests and API mocks. HN links it in a hiring post, a launch thread, and a comment on a similar tool, without discussing the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
AI agents and Speedscale engineers replay your real customer traffic against every build and tell you whether it is ready for production. Run it as SaaS or in your own cloud.
What Hacker News says?
Speedscale | https://speedscale.com/ | Front End Engineer | Atlanta, GA (Hybrid) Speedscale is an innovative startup which uses traffic capture and replay to validate and load test applications as they evolve. We work with big companies you've heard of and are actively growing. Come own the front end of our customer application and grow with us. Apply at https://speedscale.com/careers/position/front-end-engineer/
Comment linking /careers/position/front-end-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)”Submitted Speedscale K8s Traffic Replay is now v1.0 as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSpeedscale | Atlanta, GA | ONSITE | https://speedscale.com/careers/ We record traffic from live systems and use it to autogenerate incoming requests and API mocks. You can use it to develop against realistic simulated 3rd party APIs or throw it in your CI system to make sure new builds handle production load. Nobody likes writing tests and mocks, so let Speedscale do it using your own traffic. Hiring Front End/Full…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted Dependency Wrapping, in Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, I really like goreplay and it was an early inspiration for our sidecar. It uses gopacket (like tcpdump) to collect data, we currently use the TCP proxy route because we can use TLS libraries for HTTP/S support. There are similarities in that both can collect and replay data. One of the early observations from my co-founder Nate was there are 3 key ingredients to testing in a SOA environment [1] * Automation * D…
Comment linking /2020/02/06/triplethreat/
on “Launch HN: Speedscale (YC S20) – Automatically create tests from actual traffic”Submitted Speedscale (YC S20) Partners with New Relic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you are looking at this. You might be also be interested in Speedscale [1]. They have been around for a while. Interesting thing is that it is a YC company too. [1] https://speedscale.com/
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on “Launch HN: Codeparrot (YC W23) – Automated API testing using production traffic”Submitted Speedscale vs. Locust: Comparing Performance Testing Tools as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWe did the same and I wrote (admittedly had AI write) about it. https://speedscale.com/blog/building-speedy-autonomous-ai-de...
Comment linking /blog/building-speedy-autonomous-ai-development-agent/
on “Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw”