Dec 2, 2022
If you asked Jacob, our head of Platform, he’d say we started Skyramp to help developers deal with the sh#tstorm of distributed development.
Colorful, but not wrong. There are lots of new complexities slowing developers down. And lots of recurring worries. Like merging code and trying not to think about whether it’s going to create downstream functional or performance issues in the greater application.
We want to give distributed app developers incredible confidence — every time they merge. And when code does come back for debugging, we want to make it dead simple to run integration, performance, and load tests — no expertise or much effort required. We want to help developers find and fix functional and performance errors and get back to building ASAP.
Confidence comes from tests that accurately reflect production. And developer-first means almost magical support for any language or environment, and the ability to run tests with minimal effort — even for really big apps — sometimes right on a developer’s resource-limited local machine.
We built Skyramp to help developers get a grip on how their code works in the wild, even as they code. We’re not there yet but we’re deep in build mode. And we believe that the secret to our success will be a maniacal focus on developer confidence — starting with our awesome collection of super-dedicated design partners.
This blog is our journey. You’re invited.