Tilt.dev, developed by Windmill Engineering, is a tool designed to facilitate the local continuous development and deployment of microservice applications, focusing on the "inner-loop" of development workflow by deploying applications to local Kubernetes environments like minikube, docker-for-desktop, or microk8s. Similar to other tools such as Draft, Skaffold, and Garden, Tilt offers features like automatic deployments, a command line, and a web UI for monitoring application deployment and logs, aiming to streamline development without needing multiple terminal windows. It supports more than just Dockerfiles, allowing developers to reuse Kubernetes manifests and integrate with Helm and Kustomize, thus enhancing the efficiency and speed of developing and deploying complex microservices with interdependent Docker images. Tilt's distinctive features include a live dashboard for simultaneous microservice monitoring and a Python-like DSL for configuration files, making it particularly suitable for Kubernetes-specific applications. In contrast to Garden, which provides a project-level approach with a dependency graph and supports in-cluster building, Tilt focuses on watching for changes across services and performs live updates directly in a local workstation's environment, streamlining the build, push, and deploy processes in real time.