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MetalBear 🐻
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Building DevTools for Backend Engineers!
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Currently focusing on http://mirrord.dev
February 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
- If a dev writes to a DB, won’t that mess up others' tests?
mirrord enables concurrent usage of the same cluster through the following capabilities:
February 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚀 KubeCon EU 2025 is weeks away, and we’ve been busy! 🇬🇧

We’re getting everything ready for London—demos, swag, and some exciting mirrord updates. And we’d love your input!

👉 What would you like to see from us at KubeCon? More hands-on demos? A chat with the team? Let us know in the comments!
February 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Have questions about mirrord❓ We’ve got answers! 🧵
January 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We recently chatted with @praveensanap from @Carousell, a leading multi-category platform for secondhand in Southeast Asia, about the pain of having to debug inside Docker containers just to test against their staging environment.

Check out the full story to learn: https://buff.ly/4hu7bM8
January 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
mirrord bridges the gap between local development and production, empowering developers to work faster and smarter.

As @Gavriel Zarka shared: “mirrord is an extraordinary plugin that reduces development time...”

Want to give it a try? Check out mirrord: https://mirrord.dev/
January 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The Kubernetes developer's journey
January 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
January 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Happy New Year! 🎉
Ready to level up your development game in 2025?

Here’s how mirrord can help you achieve your resolutions:
January 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
What an incredible year 2024 was 🚀. Here's a quick recap of all the incredible milestones mirrord reached 💫 ⏮:

➡️ 3.9K stars on GitHub
➡️ Over 400K image downloads from developers worldwide
➡️ Increased community growth of 1000+ members
January 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🎄 5 Days of mirrord cheer 🎄

We wrap up our series with a benefit that resonates with so many of our users—simplifying the debugging experience and making it faster.

🎄 Day 5: mirrord simplifies the debugging experience
December 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM
🎄 5 Days of mirrord cheer 🎄

As we continue our countdown, today’s benefit is all about increased productivity, and how mirrord has transformed the productivity of teams and individual developers.

🎄Day 4: mirrord boosts developer productivity
December 19, 2024 at 11:00 AM
🎄5 Days of mirrord cheer 🎄

We continue to share the ways our users have benefited from mirrord. Today’s focus is developer efficiency and how mirrord has been at the center of helping teams do more with less effort.

🎄 Day 3: mirrord improves the development workflow
December 18, 2024 at 10:00 AM
🎄 5 Days of mirrord cheer 🎄

We continue to reflect on the ways mirrord has helped developers this year. Today’s highlight is all about speeding up the path to production.

🎄 Day 2: mirrord accelerates time to market ⏳
December 17, 2024 at 11:00 AM
🎄 5 Days of mirrord cheer 🎄
As we wrap up the year, we’ve been reflecting on the incredible feedback from our users.
Each day this week, we’ll share a benefit our users have told us about, leading up to the holidays.

🎄 Day 1: mirrord saves hours of troubleshooting 🛠️
December 16, 2024 at 11:00 AM
💡Did you know that setting up mirrord in your IDE does not require steep learning curves?
All you have to do is:
1️⃣ Install the extension
2️⃣ Start mirroring your remote app locally
Check out this quick clip on how to get mirrord up and running in #VSCode.
December 13, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Who says Windows can’t play nice with cloud-native dev tools? 😉

Windows users can use mirrord using WSL (IDE plugins supported as well)

Here is how 👇:

👋 PS - It works similarly in IntelliJ, check out our docs for a detailed breakdown of the steps for this use case: https://buff.ly/3D9zyAf
December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
#mirrord gives developers the power to debug Kubernetes apps with minimal setup, saving time and effort. As Bar Hochman shared: “mirrord makes the debugging procedure just easy”. 🙌

Ready to streamline your development process? Check it out: https://mirrord.dev/
December 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Developers getting haunted by production only bugs after deploying untested code
December 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM
You can use it to:
✔️ Filter messages based on criteria you define.

✔️ Share incoming messages from remote queues (like AWS SQS or Kafka) between your local process, your teammates' processes, and the remote service🕵️‍♂️

Here is how Queue Splitting works👇🏼:
November 28, 2024 at 12:00 PM
We recently chatted with Gregory O'Grady from @VoiceflowHQ, about the challenges their team faced troubleshooting issues with connection splitting and intercepting services.

Read full story on how they use mirrord to simplify development in their microservice architecture: https://buff.ly/4950xc9
November 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Want to know how to grow your OSS project with strategic DevRel practices?

Our Developer Advocate, @Anita_ihuman, is speaking at #OpenSourceAnalyticsCon on November 21st. She will be talking about "Building a Thriving DevRel Program for OSS Projects"
💻 Find more details at: https://buff.ly/48UStdO
November 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
You can use mirrord config by:

➡️ Applying your configuration file with the `-f <CONFIG_PATH>` flag in CLI or

➡️ By simply droping a `.mirrord/mirrord.json` file in VSCode or JetBrains.

Here is what a basic config file looks like:
November 18, 2024 at 1:26 PM
We’re excited to be at KubeCon, what are you looking forward to the most? 😀
November 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
If you're attending DevFest Lagos 2024, check out @Anita_ihuman session on "Leveling Up the Kubernetes Development Experience with Remocal Development."

She’ll dive into developer workflows and how to speed up feedback loops with #mirrord.

Grab your ticket here: https://buff.ly/3YZ3reV
November 11, 2024 at 1:30 PM