Signadot promises developers faster feedback loops –
Summary
The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator (the company was part of the Winter 2020 batch) as well as a group of angel investors that includes former Heroku CEO Adam Gross, former GitHub CTO Jason Warner, GitLab’s Sébastien Pahl and LaunchDarkly co-founder and CEO, John Kodumal. All of these environments (Signadot calls them “sandboxes”) can be spun up and down in seconds for every pull request or commit, for example, making for significantly faster feedback loops. […] The developer experience of having these long feedback loops and discovering issues very late really hurt our ability to ship software fast.” At the same time, though, developers don’t want to spend a lot of time building and tearing down testing environments, so the promise of Signadot is that the service will allow them to quickly run their integration tests against real services in isolated environments. Iyer also noted that part of the idea here is to ensure that the production environment isn’t a walled garden that the developers can’t touch. “As cloud-native becomes more ubiquitous and demand for it grows, developers will need all the help they can get to streamline their process and build software quickly without sacrificing quality.