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Date Published
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Carlota Soto
Word count
975
Language
English
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Summary

Endform is developing a platform to efficiently scale Playwright end-to-end tests, leveraging technologies like AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Durable Objects, and Neon. Initiated by Oliver Stenbom and team, who have extensive experience in fast-paced engineering environments, the platform focuses on lightweight and scalable solutions, using Neon for its ability to quickly spin up Postgres databases without infrastructure constraints. Originally starting with Supabase, Endform switched to Neon to avoid being locked into specific authentication models and to maintain flexibility in infrastructure choices. The platform utilizes Neon’s branching model to create ephemeral databases for each pull request, enhancing testing workflows by mirroring production environments and catching potential issues early. Endform employs a serverless architecture with AWS Lambda for running browser instances and Cloudflare for frontend deployment, all orchestrated with a new Typescript-native tool, Alchemy, to provide fast, reliable, and scalable testing environments.