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Toxiproxy
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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.Read the full discussion
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 commandsRead the full discussion