What are smoke tests? | Serverless Reliability

Have you built a serverless app but found it unreliable? Welcome back to Serverless Expeditions Extended! In this video, Martin teams up with reliability expert Steve to implement simple smoke tests and determine the next steps for making Martin’s RUclips comment-tracking app more reliable for its users.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Current reliability issues
1:46 - What are smoke tests?
2:37 - How to set up monitoring
4:10 - How to set up a deep health check
4:55 - Where do I place the different smoke tests?
5:24 - Verifying returned data with smoke tests
6:24 - Smoke tests for VMs and K8s
7:28 - Next steps
8:07 - Wrap up
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[@touchwithbabu]

This series is getting better in every single episodes. The trick is Martin’s “innocent” and sensible questions. Specials thanks to Steve for his insights

[@TheMomander]

Thank you, Babu! I may not know a lot, but I do know how to ask questions 🙂

[@angelgutierrez240]

I need more of these SRE tips and tricks videos, definitely!!!

[@TheMomander]

We'll keep them coming!

[@angelgutierrez240]

@@TheMomander awesome Martin!

[@ch4sethe5un]

Just a heads up, you blurred out the email on the input field, but its still visible on the next page 🐶

[@TheMomander]

I love getting emails 🙂 Thanks for the heads-up!

[@davidanthonyburton2253]

Thanks from UK/GB

[@megairrational]

I love your videos Martin! Very informative

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

If you use App Engine, and you want you services to shut down after X minutes of inactivity (to save cost), be aware that your smoke tests will effectively keep your App Engine server running 24/7.

[@TheMomander]

Good point! With the App Engine configuration you're describing, leaving more time between each smoke test will cost less. With Cloud Run on the other hand, you pay per request and not per active instance, so you can run your smoke tests more often.

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

@@TheMomander yes, thank you.

[@SirWilliamWalker]

Love these videos! Very cool 🤟.

[@c4taurus]

💛

[@polrk]

3:32 Email is visible

[@TheMomander]

Thanks for the heads-up!

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

You guys are smoking right now.. great videos recently

[@TheMomander]

Thank you, Lars!

[@ShaneGautreau-bl9ej]

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