Chaos engineering was developed at large companies. Over time, it has become more accessible, but for the most part it is still used by SREs to test production systems.
Steadybit wants to put it in reach of more developers by building these tests into the development process. The general availability of the product was announced today.
Benjamin Wilms, co-founder and CEO of Steadybit, says that by pushing back chaos testing, they can deal with issues before they hit production.
Under tremendous pressure, developers are haunted by incident after incident. Wilms told TechCrunch that they would like to get them into a more proactive approach earlier in the process.
He says that they need to be able to prove that the software can handle a number of incidents that could cause the software to fail.
Wilms was a consultant working with development teams to help pressure-test their projects, but it was too late because the software had been released. He and his co- founders launched the startup.
They built a solution to test the variable nature of software development and let developers code the testing into the process to make it more automated to catch problems before they become an issue for users.
The image is called Steadybit.
The company has five customers and 11 employees. He wants to learn from others who have built successful diverse organizations as he builds the company.
A $200,000 pre-seed was raised in the first year, followed by a $2.6 million seed in 2020 and a $5 million secondary seed last year.
After hearing about the company, the general partner of the firm that led the seed round flew to Germany to meet the team in person and wrote a check. He was excited about something.
It wasn't designed for developers before Steadybit. The founder's focus on making it easy for product teams to test how their apps perform was the reason why I was so excited.
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