Today, we released version 2.0 [https://rubygems.org/gems/skylight] of the Skylight Agent. 2.0 doesn't introduce any new APIs, but we did rewrite the SQL Lexer to support more varieties of queries. We also spent a lot of time on internal refactoring and improved our…
Here at Skylight, we love all things open source [http://www.tilde.io/about-us/#open-source]. We're thrilled to show you just how much we love it with some exciting news: Starting today, we're offering free Skylight accounts [https://www.skylight.io/oss] to all open source…
We’ve just released the Skylight Agent 2.0 Beta and we’re excited to have you give it a try! The most significant changes are a completely rewritten SQL Lexer and removal of support for unsupported versions of Ruby, Rails, and other libraries. Read on to learn more or…
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 [https://www.skylight.io/support/skylight-guides#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 [https://www.skylight.io/support/skylight-guides#response-timeline], allowing you to answer…
We're pleased to announce the release of version 1.4 [https://rubygems.org/gems/skylight/versions/1.4.0] 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…
This post is a write-up of the talk we gave at RailsConf 2017. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/helix-ruby-native-extensions-without-fear] here. Last year at RailsConf, we introduced the Helix project [https://usehelix.com/], a SDK for writing native Ruby extensions in Rust. There are a lot of…
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…
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 [https://www.twitter.com/vaidehijoshi] joins us from New York City, and thankfully, she really likes rain. Before learning to code,…
