Launch HN: Signadot (YC W20) – Lightweight Test Environments for Microservices

Hey everyone, we’re Arjun and Anirudh, founders of Signadot ( https://www.signadot.com/ ). Signadot is a Kubernetes-based solution that enables lightweight environments, called Sandboxes, to test microservices early in the development lifecycle. Before founding Signadot, I managed engineering teams building microservices at different companies. As the number of services and external dependencies (i.e databases, message queues, third-party APIs, etc) increased, testing became challenging. While at a smaller scale, we could stand up our “application in a box”, as the complexity increased, we relied on a pre-production (staging) environment to do a lot of our testing. However since the staging environment was shared by many teams for testing, it became a bottleneck. When issues were discovered on staging, the root-cause analysis took a long time. We talked to many companies about how they were testing their microservices, especially once they started to grow beyond ~20 engi