"The company was spending an inordinate amount of money on AWS Cloud services. In the back of my mind, I always knew we needed some sort of process or mechanism to better deal with this highly regulated data."

If we didn’t have Tonic, we would have to have a DBA to do all that along with a team of 2 or 3 people. It’s hard to even gauge what that would look like because our tables are changing constantly. They would need to run all these custom DBs with fake data. That’s the thing. We need all that fake data so we can create the features people need.

The faster lead time that we have with QA, the more things we can test in a day, the faster we can release and at higher quality than before

I’ve tried other tools in the past, but they were hard to use, my engineering teams hated them, and in the end, they never quite met all our needs.

Before implementing Tonic, our QA and development environments looked nothing like production. Tonic removed a major blocker for us by enabling our teams to test at scale with data that mirrors the size, shape, and feel of our production data. And by guaranteeing privacy for HIPAA compliance, Tonic allows us to share that data safely with our off-shore development teams, too.

"The value of Tonic for our application developers is in having a complete subset of production to work with and be confident that it addresses edge case data. As our data changes over time, we can quickly get a new realistic database that is representative of the whole, without being the whole."

Nothing that we tried in-house is comparable to what we’re doing now with Tonic. It’s a game changer both in terms of the automation we can achieve, as well as on-demand function validation targeting specific use cases with the precise data we need.