Speedscale announced it
has successfully achieved an Expertise in Cloud Native Application Development
as part of Google's Partner Advantage Program. Achieving this Expertise
means that Speedscale has demonstrated strong customer success with Google
Cloud.
Nylas, a leading name in bidirectional email sync, used
Speedscale's traffic replay capabilities to optimize its cloud
price-performance ratio and continuously deliver quality releases at scale.
Using Speedscale, Nylas proved:
- Google's Tau VMs with GKE
delivers over 40% better price-performance than their current cloud
architecture.
- Email synchronization, the
highest throughput part of their SaaS offering, improved 30x as part of
their migration and continuous testing.
Testing at the Speed of Cloud Native
"Nylas needed modern observability and QA tools to deliver
highly performant, quality releases, at the speed of cloud native, which
Speedscale allows us to do with confidence," said David Ting, Nylas' senior VP
engineering, product and CISO. "With every new feature and every
delivery, our developers add new nodes and microservices, more API integrations
and more interdependencies that - without proper testing - could easily
trigger a breakdown in API communications. Fortunately for Nylas and our
customers, Speedscale provides fast API performance benchmarking and testing
needed to satisfy customer demand."
Unit, UI and manual testing are the industry standard. Yet
according to the 2019 State of DevOps Report by DORA, the types of incidents
that bring down production systems are often "caused by interactions between
components." The vast majority of quality automation still requires an author
to painstakingly create each individual test case and maintain them, which
slows delivery dramatically. By leveraging traffic to auto-generate tests and
environments, Speedscale allows users to exercise their APIs on GKE and finally
keep pace with development. A user can also multiply traffic to simulate high
load to test Google's Autopilot and ensure auto-scaling performs as
expected.
"Speedscale's superpower is mocking real-world traffic
patterns, including spikes in volume of incoming requests and any
variability in data returning from downstream services," said Ken Ahrens,
co-founder of Speedscale. "It's like testing in production with none of
the risk. You simulate production conditions in pre-prod but also understand
latency, throughput and headroom of changes are within your expected bounds."
To learn more about Speedscale's Expertise in Cloud Native
Application Development, visit https://cloud.google.com/find-a-partner/partner/speedscale-inc.