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> If your exotic software testing technology gets yanked, then you're literally exactly where you are today. As someone testing concurrent/distributed software
by SloopJon 2y ago
> If your exotic software testing technology gets yanked, then you're literally exactly where you are today.
As someone testing concurrent/distributed software, Antithesis is potentially useful to me. It would be a substantial investment to build test infrastructure around it, with a very big opportunity cost if it wasn't successful, or disappeared after an acquisition. If this exotic technology is more than a toy, I wouldn't be so cavalier about its long term prospects.
- geodel 2y agoWell, thats the price of implementing very new technology. When risk appetite is less people can always go with established large vendors.
- wwilson 2y agoThat's true. And it's also true that investing heavily would take time, and the more time goes on the less likely we are to be acquired or disappear (or for the acquisition to be by somebody who wants to resell this as I note above). In that sense, you have a lot of optionality/convexity on this bet. In the meantime, you can use it right now to solve your problems without a ton of integration. We have customers at every level of the spectrum from "sending us unmodified output of their CI system" to "deeply integrating with our SDKs". If the former are seeing value, you can too, and your risk is genuinely minimal.
- rockwotj 2y agoQuestion for you, what is the level of ROI for doing simplified just send unmodified existing CI vs integrating with the SDKs? Do you happen to know if hitting this big required SDK integration?
- wwilson 2y agoThis bug definitely didn’t involve SDK integration, because our SDK didn’t exist yet when we found it! I believe CockroachDB was running our instrumentor over their binaries though. So call it an in-between level of integration.