Feb 28, 2023
From the very beginning we knew that Skyramp was about small engineering teams working with Kubernetes clusters and other joys of modern software development. One to ten hands-on developers in a team, with a manager. In a startup there might be a single team. In a hyperscaler, too many to count, but each smaller unit still receptive to the same value proposition: giving each individual developer (and their manager) the confidence that the apps they’re building would function and perform as expected in the “wild” — the larger distributed app, under production-like conditions. Fewer integration errors, performance bugs, and regressions. Faster solutions. More time to build.
We still believe this. It’s fundamental to Skyramp’s design. But not all teams are equal. Some of our design partners work inside very large companies. And the infrastructure and security requirements at these bigcos can make things hard for us in our pursuit of delivering shift left cloud native application testing ease. I was on a Zoom today with Nithin, Sacheth (one of our awesome developers) and a Fortune 500 design partner watching commands fly in terminal as we tried to solve one of these unique deployment challenges.
We got it done on the Zoom, and left knowing we would keep surmounting these barriers on behalf of our customers. None of this is easy, but every interaction is an opportunity to learn. And what we learn here will make Skyramp that much easier for developers wherever they build their magic — even deep down the belly of large organizations.