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…
Skylight’s new deploy tracking feature allows you to zero in on performance improvements or regressions caused by a deployment. Now, each of your deployments will be marked on the Response Timeline, allowing you to answer the following questions: Did this deployment make my app any faster? Use the Time…
We're pleased to announce the release of version 1.4 of the Skylight agent today. This release has a number of improvements and some exciting new features! Read on to learn more, or skip to the good stuff and update your Gemfile. Rack Middleware Instrumentation The most significant new feature…
This post is a write-up of the talk we gave at RailsConf 2017. You can find the slides here. Last year at RailsConf, we introduced the Helix project, a SDK for writing native Ruby extensions in Rust. There are a lot of benefits and use cases for this, but since…
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 performance. While you…
Greetings from the Tildeverse! We are happy to report not one but TWO pieces of great news. First, last week we welcomed Vaidehi Joshi to the engineering team! Vaidehi joins us from New York City, and thankfully, she really likes rain. Before learning to code, she was a teacher and…
Hello from Kryzz (Liz + Krystan) here at Skylight! We've been hard at work revamping the new Skylight Smarketing (marketing + documentation) site. Now that it's deployed, we'd love to tell you about it. The old site was in dire need of a content update. Some of our favorite features weren't even…
Hello from Dylan and Brett at Tilde again, posting one last time. We're finishing up our internship at Tilde and moving out into the great big world of software development long-term employment. But before we do that, we wanted to share a bit about our experience. The project In our…
At Skylight we often use Feature Flags to ship code as soon as possible. Once a feature nears completion, we announce it to our Insiders and give them access to the feature's flag. Skylight Insiders get a behind-the-scenes peek at features in development, allowing them to start using new features…
