ShadowTraffic

At nearly every company I've worked at in the last decade, someone has built an internal data generator tool to try and simulate production traffic. What for? For demos, for load testing, for proof-of-concept projects. But the problem is that none of these tools have ever been good. I wanted to make a great product that helps companies rapidly simulate production traffic once and for all. Hit me up in the comments and let me know if I succeeded!

This resonates with me so much! The struggle with subpar internal data generators is real. Excited to see someone finally addressing this pain point and creating a tool that's up to the task. Can't wait to check it out and put an end to the era of mediocre simulation tools!

Congrats on your launch! This looks like a great tool!

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Is the goal to stress test APIs or is it to generate realistic yet fake data?

This tool is going to save so much time! I've used Michael's Voluble Kafka Connector in the past, but this is way more powerful, easier to use, and not limited to Kafka.

I can see this being helpful for sales engineering teams too. My teams are always struggling to build realistic demos and the bottleneck is on generating complex, fake data. Excited to check this out.