ShadowTraffic

Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend.

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Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend.

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ShadowTraffic is a containerized service for declaratively generating data, packed with knobs to perfectly mimic your production traffic.

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ShadowTraffic

Maker

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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!

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2yr ago

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!

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2yr ago

ShadowTraffic

Maker

@tanjirrahman So glad to hear I'm hitting a real pain point! :)

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2yr ago

@mjdrogalis You are doing really good!

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2yr ago

COCA

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

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2yr ago

ShadowTraffic

Maker

@porta7511 Thanks so much Hrvoje! :)

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2yr ago

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2yr ago

Go Mail Merge

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

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2yr ago

ShadowTraffic

Maker

@kingromstar I primarily designed it for the latter, but I've found that it seems to be a prerequisite to doing the former correctly. For example, if you're a company that deals in compression, any realistic stress testing has to model real customer traffic for your compression to show up. Does that make sense?

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2yr ago

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.

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2yr ago

ShadowTraffic

Maker

@dave_klein19 Thanks for the praise, Dave! It's been fun to watch this idea slowly evolve over the years, and only recently realize there might even be a little business in it.

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2yr ago

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.

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2yr ago