“I wrote a like mini recorder tool where I could via slash command in Slack, say like, slash start recording, go through a whole flow in Slack. It would record every single API request I made across both to the normal web app backend and to our edge cache.”
The Pragmatic Engineer · Scaling Slack and GitHub with Maude Lemaire
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What was described
built a recorder tool that, via a Slack slash command, captured every API request and WebSocket message during a flow and exported it as a JSON script for replay
Said nearby on the same subject
“We built APIs. We built integrations. We built automations. We leveraged custom API code... you went into Postman, hit pull, and you pulled a JSON file that was basically our entire compliance posture”
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Said on The GRC Engineering Club's AntiCheckBox Podcast
“We spun up a bunch of little go processes that would each establish a WebSocket connection and run through a series of API requests that made it look like they were actual clients.”
“Best place to start would be making sure that you as an organization have an updated record of every AI tool that's being deployed or used across the business. Again, it's effectively an AI inventory.”