How do you deal with what a user can do on their account in a SaaS app? Can Jane on the "Starter" plan create another widget when she is near the limit of her plan? What if she's a trial user?Turns out this is a mix of thingsFeature togglingCounting…
This is a run down on the basic multi-tenant SaaS data model underlying Checkly. Users, accounts, plans, that type of stuff. When building this, I found it surprisingly hard to find any solid info in the gazillions of developer and startup blogs; most were just to vague on the implementation…
Weāre super happy to announce some big upgrades to Checklyās alerting features for 2019 š. We listened to what our customers were missing alerting wise and what parts we could polish and upgrade. Two things popped up again and again:Checkly should give you more control over when and…
2018 was an interesting year for Node.js frameworks and open source software in general. Developer communities discussed the role of corporate sponsorship and how to maintain a project used by millions but not supported financially.Similarly, security concerns were top of mind with some popular Node / JS packages being…
Update 13-03-2019: We moved our browser Checks to AWS Lambda! There will be a new write up!At Checkly, we run our browser checks on AWS EC2 instances managed by Terraform. When shipping a new version, we donāt want to interrupt our service, so we need zero downtime deployments.…
The world of DevOps is a pretty confusing place for folks just starting out. Even figuring out what āDevOpsā means can be hard. Is it CI/CD with Kubernetes and Serverless to drive Agileā¢ product iterations? Or is it SSH-ing into a box and restarting Apache? You guessed it. All…
Since launch, we didnāt pay too much attention to the front end performance of the main Checkly web app. Shame on us. What better reason to dive into this than the publishing of the excellent The Cost of Javascript in 2018 by Googleās Addy Osmani?TL;DR: it…
Last week, we shipped an initial version of Puppeteer Recorder, a Google Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Puppeteer script.It turns out Chrome extension development is almost like real web development, but with a weird dash of quasi embedded development mixed in.This post talks…
Last week the ābetaā tag officially came off of Checkly š¾š! I bumped into many things in the period between launching a private beta and hammering down on all features and ripping the beta notice of the nav.navbar.…
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