The Company

Headquartered in Paris, ManoMano is Europe’s premier online hub for home, garden, and DIY products. With a monthly user base exceeding 50 million and a staff of 1,000, the marketplace offers an expansive online catalog of 10 million products. The platform serves six European markets, founded in 2013 by Phillipe De Chanville and Christian Raisson. It features “Manodvisors”—a cadre of expert hobbyists and retired hardware employees providing invaluable advice to consumers.

Challenges

Committed to enhancing the user experience and system resilience, ManoMano sought a tool for in-depth insights into system reliability. Traditional experiments proved cumbersome and inefficient. The team needed a ready-to-use, intuitive Kubernetes-compatible solution.

Solutions & Results

Enter Steadybit. Within a short timeframe, ManoMano implemented Steadybit’s chaos-engineering experiments to reveal system vulnerabilities. “Steadybit’s efficiency enabled us to simulate and anticipate incidents, fostering proactive problem-solving across our teams,” noted Antoine Choimet, Site Reliability Engineer at ManoMano.

Steadybit also supported ManoMano’s targeted performance tests and “black hole” attacks, revealing unknown weak spots. Choimet added, “Steadybit allows us to easily simulate external partner issues, creating a robust mechanism for incident response.”

“Steadybit’s efficiency enabled us to simulate and anticipate incidents, fostering proactive problem-solving across our teams.”

Implementation

While previous open-source tools fell short of ManoMano’s needs, Steadybit met and exceeded expectations. “Steadybit enables us to integrate chaos engineering into our daily development practices, thus refocusing our attention on what truly matters to our users,” said Choimet.

Steadybit’s capabilities have radically simplified ManoMano’s system assessment processes, offering an eagle-eye view of complex microservice interactions. “This tool revolutionized our approach to chaos engineering, providing an all-in-one solution for all our APIs,” said Choimet.

“Steadybit enables us to integrate chaos engineering into our daily development practices, thus refocusing our attention on what truly matters to our users.”

Future Goals

ManoMano plans to deepen its integration with Steadybit by instituting policies that mandate a series of successful experiments before production deployment. “Steadybit’s seamless integration makes it an indispensable tool as we expand into larger markets,” concluded Choimet.

“Steadybit’s seamless integration makes it an indispensable tool as we expand into larger markets.”