Welcome to Browser Stack Talks, the podcast where we turn testing pain points into playbooks. In this episode, host David Burns sits down with Marie Cruz, Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs and co-author of Contract Testing in Action, to deep dive into the world of performance, reliability, and understanding how systems behave under pressure.

Moving away from the traditional model of treating performance testing as a final checkpoint right before production, Marie breaks down how modern software teams can integrate performance thinking into every stage of the development life cycle. Whether you are a developer, QA professional, or SRE, this episode provides a practical playbook for catching critical regressions early without slowing down your deployment pipelines.