We move at an extraordinary pace at Instacart. In order to release new versions of our products multiple times a day, we need a testing infrastructure that can keep up.

Testing our product end-to-end is extremely difficult though because our service has to handle pretty complex transactions in the physical world. It became clear to us: in order to roll out features confidently, we need to be testing at real physical grocery stores.

However, driving to the grocery store is a pain! Just as Instacart solves this pain for our customers, The Garden solves this pain for our engineering, product & design teams.