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:alarm_clock: :fire: A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing

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Open-source network emulators and simulators | Oct 2023

I use this to simulate delays between various local services:

https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy

If you have Docker all you need is a few terminal commands

Ask HN: How do I force network failures during development against remote APIs? | Jul 2022

https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy is a perfect solution for that. I used it quite successfully years ago and it looks like it's still pretty active.

Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems | Jul 2022

There's also toxiproxy - https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy

I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency | Aug 2020

Toxiproxy [1] is a tool that allows to create network tunnels with random network problems like high latency, packet drops or slicing, timeouts, etc.

Setting it up requires some effort (you can't just choose a region in your AWS config), but it's available now and can be integrated with tests.

[1] https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy

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