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ShadowTraffic: Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
- mjdrogalis 3y agoHey 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 :)
- johnmdesjardins 3y agoLook forward to trying this!
- shoellinger 3y agoThis 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 3y agoThanks! 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 3y agothe declarative approach makes for a lean and exacting experience versus other tooling for load testing. Great approach for the cloud native world.
- mjdrogalis 3y agoMany thanks! Indeed, I'm looking forward to offering this as a cloud service someday.
- miguno 3y agoThis 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 3y agoThanks! 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.
- chucklarrieu 3y agoCongrats on the launch, Michael!
- mjdrogalis 3y agoThanks Chuck! It's been cool getting feedback from you and the team the last few months. Customer-guided feedback FTW
- abstractbeliefs 3y agoThis 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 3y agoHey, 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.
- az226 3y agoLol. You’ve been caught red handed and you still double down. Take the L.
- enether 3y agoWhy 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?
- abstractbeliefs 3y agoI'm talking about the top level comments, that is to say, comments posted directly in reply to the post itself. At the time, of the six comments, 1 was the author, and two were his colleagues who created accounts <5 mins before the post was created. Isn't it strange that 3 accounts were created moments before the post and then all happened to make their first and only comments on this post, each with strongly positive responses and not disclosing any link to the project? A further account has been created since then: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chucklarrieu https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chucklarrieu https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=botcanics https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=botcanics https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bcalderwood https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bcalderwood I do understand that HN has voter ring detection which seeks to cluster groups of users who engage strongly in cooperative voting, but the accounts here are probably too new to establish a pattern strong enough to call a voting ring already.
- bcalderwood 3y agoI 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.
- smcavinney1 3y agoCongrats on the launch Michael. I dreamt of this back when I was an SE at RJMetrics :)
- gunnarmorling 3y agoGood luck for the launch, Michael!