ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend

[abstractbeliefs]

This is a weirdly astroturfed post, a full 50% of the top level comments are the author or accounts created moments before this post, specifically to comment here.

I'm still interested in the product, but I've already got a bad taste in my mouth. If it's good, leave it to speak for itself.

[mjdrogalis]

Hey, author here. No foul activity was intended.

I've been building in public on Twitter and LinkedIn over the last few months and pre-announced the launch a few weeks in advance. I think a lot of the comments here were just folks flowing through there.

[enether]

Why would the author replying to comments be a bad thing? Shouldn’t be counted in the “50% imo”

As for the potential of fake accounts - doesn’t HN have protection against this?

[mjdrogalis]

Hey everyone, founder of ShadowTraffic here. I built this product in 90 days bootstrapped on my own dollar, which was a wild experience all on its own. Happy to answer any questions :)

[miguno]

This looks cool, can't wait to try it!

At first, people might think "$10,000 demo problem? What a high number!" Realistically, in corp environments, that number is an understatement. Plus the long time (and pain) it takes to get every team's buy-in to help with capturing/generating that data.

[mjdrogalis]

Thanks! Yeah, I didn't want to seem cheeky throwing out a big round number, but it feels ballpark right based on all the situations I've been in.

[bcalderwood]

I frequently have this problem throughout my product development process: dev, testing especially under load or for edge failure cases, and demo/sales engineering. Great product, solid API and devex, and it’s been fun following Michael’s journey of building a product quickly and in public.

[shoellinger]

This looks really interesting! Generating large amounts of plausible fake data by modeling the reality is still a big issue both for generating custom demos and for maximum load testing of streaming applications. Will definitely give ShadowTraffic a try.

[mjdrogalis]

Thanks! I had initially built ShadowTraffic to help with simple demos, but I'm realizing over time that to run a good load test, you need the same kind of statistically accurate data.

[botcanics]

the declarative approach makes for a lean and exacting experience versus other tooling for load testing. Great approach for the cloud native world.

[mjdrogalis]

Many thanks! Indeed, I'm looking forward to offering this as a cloud service someday.

[smcavinney1]

Congrats on the launch Michael. I dreamt of this back when I was an SE at RJMetrics :)

[gunnarmorling]

Good luck for the launch, Michael!

[chucklarrieu]

Congrats on the launch, Michael!

[mjdrogalis]

Thanks Chuck! It's been cool getting feedback from you and the team the last few months. Customer-guided feedback FTW

[johnmdesjardins]

Look forward to trying this!