[peter_l_downs]

Hi Weston, congratulations on launching. You've done a great job of explaining what the project is and how it works. I'm not in the ecosystem you've built this for so I can't comment too much on the project itself, but nice work communicating it.

EDIT: after reading through the linked docs a bit more, I have to say that they are quite confusing. I'm not sure what the difference is between Ratifier, Kulvert, and SQL Simulator. I'd recommend finding a potential user and watching them go through the setup/install process and see where they have questions.

If anyone is interested in something similar for postgres, I recently released https://github.com/peterldowns/pgtestdb. It uses template databases and advisory locks to give each test its own unique database with a near-zero marginal cost for each additional test. Combined with a ram/tmpfs-backed postgres server that is tuned for performance, it goes extremely fast.

Currently just for golang but I'm planning on releasing equivalent-capability libraries for Python and Typescript over the next month. If anyone has any thoughts/comments/feedback/suggestions I'd be extremely thankful.

[westonOG]

Thanks for responding. I apologize for the confusion, but part of that is because I am just learning how to market this product. So, SQL Simulator is a feature of both Ratifier and Kulvert. Ratifier is meant to be a data validation or QA tool. Where as Kulvert is a CI\CD pipeline for SQL Scripts. You would use the SQL Simulator in the Ratifier to test your changes before you check them in. You would use Kulvert to apply your changes to the database if and only if SQL Simulator found no problems with the SQL Script or other logic checks.

I may need to create separate gitbooks for each of the programs so that would reduce the confusion. I hope you will find success with your product.