Introducing Saved Searches
Skylight's new Saved Searches feature allows you to bookmark Endpoint Searches for all users of an app component...…
Typed Ember extends Confidence Part 3: The Real Benefits of TypeScript
This is the third and final part of a series on converting your Ember app to TypeScript to foster confidence in your engineering team. Now, we're circling back to the benefits of TypeScript in the context of developer confidence.…
Typed Ember extends Confidence Part 2: Converting Your Ember App to TypeScript
This is part 2 of a series on converting your Ember app to TypeScript to foster confidence in your engineering team. Now, we'll look at what TypeScript looks like in an Ember app.…
Typed Ember extends Confidence Part 1: What is TypeScript?
This is part 1 of a series on converting your Ember app to TypeScript to foster confidence in your engineering team. We're going to start with some basics: "What even is a type? What is TypeScript?"…
Skylight 5: Now with Source Locations!
Skylight’s new Source Locations feature helps you pinpoint locations in your code corresponding to events in the event sequence. Now available with the 5.0 Skylight agent.…
May 15 Outage Post-Mortem
Last night, we had an incident in our data-processing pipeline that resulted in some data loss. At around 11:30 PM Pacific Time, an on-call engineering was paged due to a server becoming unresponsive and unreachable. While quite rare, our infrastructure is robust enough to tolerate some servers going down…
The Lifecycle of a Response
This breathtaking docuseries combines rare action, unimaginable scale, impossible locations and intimate moments captured from the deepest depths of Rails internals. This year, we'll travel across the great text/plain, taking in the spectacular Action View as we find our way back to the browser.…
Announcing Skylight for GraphQL! 🤝
Skylight 4.2.0 now supports GraphQL instrumentation! To use it, upgrade the Skylight gem and add `'graphql'` to your probes list. We support `graphql-ruby` versions >= `1.7`.…
Using Skylight on Skylight
Skylight is a smart profiler for Ruby and Rails applications. In this post, we use Skylight to improve performance for the Skylight app. So meta!…
Announcing Skylight 4.0: Now with Background Jobs!
Skylight’s new Background Jobs feature helps you discover and correct hidden performance issues in your Sidekiq, Delayed::Job, and ActiveJob queues. Now available with the 4.0 Skylight agent.…