Signadot
Shift Left Testing for Microservices
Signadot is a Kubernetes-native platform that accelerates the development of microservices based applications. Using Signadot developers test and preview their code changes early in the development lifecycle and iterate 10x faster.
Active Founders
Arjun Iyer
My background is in distributed systems and Machine Learning. I graduated from IIT-Kharagpur and did my MS at UIUC. I've led large Engineering teams and am a lifelong learner. When not at work, I love to play tennis and spend time with my family!
Anirudh Ramanathan
Technical Leader with a focus on distributed systems. I am passionate about containers, k8s and building better tools for systems of the future.
Company Launches
tl;dr: If you’re running microservices, you can now use Signadot to help developers ship features faster using lightweight dev environments. These environments spin up in seconds within a Kubernetes cluster that you run and scale well across hundreds of developers and microservices without incurring large infrastructure costs or maintenance burdens. These environments are built on top of “Sandboxes”, a new approach that is used in companies like Uber and Lyft and we’re excited to make that available to everyone.
We launched about a year ago, with a focus on preview & test environments in Kubernetes. With our latest update, we’re adding the following new capabilities:
- Developers can now run the dev version of a microservice on their laptop and seamlessly connect it to a shared Kubernetes cluster and start testing as though the whole application were running locally. They get 10x faster feedback by testing their changes in a live Kubernetes environment during active development.
- Multiple such dev environments can be combined together to test different microservices with each other as they're being developed. This means developers can collaborate and get a feature spanning different microservices working end-to-end long before their code gets merged or hits a staging/production environment.
How does it work?
Just as before, we use request routing (using a Service Mesh like Istio or a sidecar-based system that we built) to isolate these environments from one another in a shared Kubernetes cluster.
Read more about our launch here, or watch a video of how teams use these dev environments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXUmPJTdwm0
How do I get access
Just sign up using https://www.signadot.com/signup and try one of our quickstart guides. Feedback is much appreciated!