Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, methods and techniques for recreating the outputting of content by an electronic device. For instance, system(s) may process (e.g., encode) first source data in order to generate second source data. The system(s) may then store the second source data in one or more databases and send a copy of the second source data to the electronic device. The electronic device may process (e.g., decode) the second source data in order to output content represented by the second source data. The electronic device may also generate event data representing events that occurred while processing the second source data. The system(s) may receive the event data from the electronic device and use the event data to process the second source data similar to the electronic device. This way, the system(s) are able to output the content similarly to how the electronic device output the content.

Abstract: A translation service is used to modify service requests by translating client-provided external identifiers for objects into canonical identifiers for the objects (e.g., an identifier used by the service to uniquely identify the one or more objects). The translation service first receives specification data for a particular service. The specification data includes information for translating external identifiers for one or more objects to canonical identifiers for the one or more objects. The translation service instantiates a translation layer for the particular service, based on the received specification data. The translation layer receives a request directed to the particular service, translates the external object identifiers to canonical object identifiers, adds the canonical object identifiers to the request, and forwards the request to the particular service.