Trevis’ team faced a two-pronged dilemma – they suffered from both resource constraints and the need to expand the availability of API endpoints for demo-hungry internal customers. Trevis couldn’t afford for valuable developer hours to be spent on anything other than their particular domains of expertise: "With a team of 15 developers managing over a dozen services, we can't afford to have our specialists doing anything but their core work." However, he was finding his most valuable experts were spending up to two days per setup creating mock environments for internal customers.  Needless to say, this significantly interrupted developer productivity.


Meanwhile, the process of onboarding internal customers was suffering. Although documentation was available, customers were much preferred to have a usable  API they could interact with, earlier in the development process. Setting up separate testing environments for each customer proved time-consuming, and back-and-forth communication about API behavior created further delays in project timelines.

WireMock Cloud now allows the IAM team to generate mock testing environments in minutes, rather than days. This means that Trevis’ team can quickly assure other departments of their applications’ reliability, removing the need for lengthy back-and-forths over documentation.

Not only has communication between the IAM team and their internal customers benefitted, but Trevis’ team has gained a huge amount of development time by using WireMock’s solution – without having to expend any additional resources.
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Feedback from other internal teams has also been highly positive. They feel that the ability to quickly and accurately demo developing APIs has made it far easier to get onboarded with the different identity and access solutions at the company. Inspired by these successes, Trevis plans to expand his team’s use of WireMock Cloud even further – a move that he expects will result in even greater time savings and interdepartmental trust.