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Articles by Carly Richmond
Principal Developer Advocate
Carly is a principal developer advocate at Elastic. Before joining Elastic in 2022, she spent over 10 years working as a software engineer, scrum master, and engineering leader at a large investment bank. She is a UI engineer who occasionally dabbles in writing backend services, a speaker, and a regular blogger on both her personal blog and the Elastic blog.
She enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea, and chasing after her young son in her spare time.
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Two sides of the same coin: Uniting testing and monitoring with Synthetic Monitoring
DevOps aims to establish complementary practices across development and operations. See how Playwright, @elastic/synthetics, GitHub Actions, and Elastic Synthetics can unite development and SRE teams in validating and monitoring the user experience.
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