Case Study: PingThings boosts engineering output and cuts bugs with Antithesis

How Antithesis helps PingThings transform the electrical grid

PingThings, a provider of the PredictiveGrid platform for electrical grid observability, faced a significant technical challenge. They needed to rebuild their system to handle a vast range of sensor data, from smart meters to high-frequency sensors, while simultaneously facing increased customer demand for higher availability and real-time use cases. This complex rearchitecting was introducing bugs and creating a high-stress environment that threatened to stall the company's growth, despite having a small engineering team of fewer than 20 people.

Antithesis was implemented to turbocharge the engineering team's productivity and software quality. The solution helped PingThings uncover subtle bugs in their distributed storage architecture, including networking edge conditions and race conditions that their existing tests missed. The results were transformative: Antithesis enabled the team to pay down technical debt, achieve a lower-stress development environment, and triple their engineering output with the same group of people, providing the confidence and scalability needed to support critical infrastructure.

PingThings

Michael Brown

Chief Technology Officer