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Notes on building a test data generator

Guides on getting realistic, foreign-key-consistent data out of your schema, plus the honest build-in-public version of what breaks along the way.

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How to generate foreign-key-consistent test data from your schema

Step by step: get a database where every foreign key resolves, from a SQL, Django or Prisma schema, loadable into Postgres or MySQL without a single constraint error.

~6 min read build in public

I found lorem ipsum in my own test data generator

The data quality bugs I caught in my own product the week before launch, lorem ipsum, impossible timestamps, totals that didn't add up, and how I fixed them.

~5 min read