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…
This post is part of a series. Check out Part II: The Lifecycle of a Response here [https://blog.skylight.io/the-lifecycle-of-a-response/]! This post is a write-up of the talk we gave at RailsConf 2019. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/the-lifecycle-of-a-rails-request] here. Most Rails developers should…
For the last couple of months, we have been investing in improving our operations and infrastructure here at Skylight. As our efforts begin to bear fruit, we have had a pretty good run without major incidents – until last week where we were hit by one of the biggest outages in…
This week at Skylight HQ (technically it’s in the Cloud™️ somewhere), we were hit with a pretty big surge of requests on our collector (Cyber Monday perhaps?). Fortunately our backend is architected to handle a very large volume of data from the agents with minimal latency, so this kind…
Last week, the Tilde crew dove into our first Hackathon. It was a really great opportunity to play with unfamiliar technologies and an overall good time. The Hackathon was a single-day, company-wide event (Peter even flew from sunny California to join us at the Portland office). We created a Slack…
Our new Grades feature gives you perspective on the performance of your endpoints, relative to other Skylight apps, so you can focus on meeting your customers' expectations. Working on performance is always a tradeoff. The truth is, you can always invest more resources in improving your app's…
🎉🎂🍻In case you haven't heard about it yet, Rails 5.0 has just been released [https://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/5.0.0]! Just like a lot of you, we are very excited about this release. If you are curious, David wrote a blog post [http://weblog.…
Rust + Ruby, Without The Glue. This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at RailsConf 2016. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/turbo-rails-with-rust] here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a lot to love about Ruby – the sweet syntax, the focus on developer productivity and happiness, the…
I took some time off in October to visit my friends and family in Hong Kong. When I returned from my vacation, I was very excited to see that we had shipped our new design for the endpoints page. If you haven't seen it yet, go ahead and…
