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Toxiproxy

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2025-08-08Latest mention

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@leetrout
Another really great dev tool related to network traffic and proxying is Toxiproxy https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy Great for ensuring your app works well with poor connections especially when using things like WebSockets.
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@enlyth
I use this to simulate delays between various local services: https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy If you have Docker all you need is a few terminal commands
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