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by tnolet 2y ago
Most SaaS is not about tech. It's about marketing, sales, customer success, operations.
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by tnolet 2y ago
Probably slight a fire sale - Blameless raised ~$50M - Firehydrant raised ~$30M seems like Blameless was out of runway.
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by tnolet 2y ago
SVB failed due to them tying up too much cash in long term securities, rate hikes and then a bank run. https://www.economicsobservatory.com/why-did-silicon-valley-... Yes, they were THE bank for startups, but shitty startup
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by tnolet 2y ago
Feels weird defending VC's but here we go: I'm not sure what your experience is dealing with actual VC's? Are you a founder? In my experience with some top tier VC's none of the above is true. At least none of the VC par
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by tnolet 2y ago
Love this book. It’s also one of the most genuinely scary books I’ve read. There are some scenes in this book that really are frightening. Maybe House of Leaves is up there too.
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Checkly announces $20M Series B(checklyhq.com)
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by tnolet 2y ago
Loved this one. If interested in similar scifi short story bundles I can recommend Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation” and “Stories of your Life and Others”. One of these was the basis for the “Arrival” movie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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by tnolet 2y ago
Moreover, we need to have presence in 20+ regions around the world. This multiplies the hassle of self hosting / bare metal / colo. Disclaimer: Checkly founder.
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Why "page.goto()" is slowing down your Playwright tests(checklyhq.com)
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by tnolet 2y ago
When it comes from a vendor you signed up for and you configured the service to send you SMS's on certain events. For us that is when a site or app goes down. Think Pagerduty without the pager.
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by tnolet 2y ago
There are many, perfectly valid non-marketing use cases for link shorteners. We send SMS's to people with a link in them. We shorten them so SMS is less annoying to read. Also, we print links in terminal sessions, same thing.
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Results OpenTelemetry Getting Started Survey(opentelemetry.io)
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by tnolet 2y ago
Also in the market and have the same feeling. The new Volvo EX30 looks very nice in comparison to Model Y and 3.
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by tnolet 2y ago
Day 1 vs day 2. That’s why the SaaS version exists.
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by tnolet 2y ago
I guess you word it better than I did. As a user it feels very weird to wade into threads like this to find a solution to your problem. The power of Otel is it being an open standard. But the practice shows the implementation of that standa
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by tnolet 2y ago
Yeah. And Otel has actually pretty nice debugging. You just need to set the right environment variable. But on prod it will blow up your logs
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by tnolet 2y ago
Well actually. They (python SDK maintainers) argue their implementation is the correct one according to the spec. See this issue thread for example. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specificatio... There
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by tnolet 2y ago
Sentry is self hostable. https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/
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by tnolet 2y ago
A recent example of OTel confusion. I could for the life of me not get the Python integration send traces to a collector. Same URL, same setup same API key as for Nodejs and Go. Turns out the Python SDK expect a URL encoded header, e.g. “Be
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by tnolet 2y ago
Can you give an example of the missing semantic conventions?
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Playwright overtakes Cypress [video](youtube.com)
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by tnolet 2y ago
let me nuance that a bit. 99% of our workload is write heavy and is still on S3. We run monitoring checks that snap a screenshot and record a video. We write that to S3. Most folks will never view any of that as most checks pass and these a
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by tnolet 2y ago
In most cases these traces are shipped over the wire to a vendor. Only that will cost $$. Then, not all vendors have tail sampling as a "free" feature. So, in many cases it's better to not record at all.
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by tnolet 2y ago
Oh, simple answer. The tools you use to inspect those traces just blow up with noise. Like a trace that shows 600+ of file reads that all take less than half a millisecond. This is all noise when you are trying to debug more common issues t
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by tnolet 2y ago
This deserves an updoot. We reached a level of scale right now at Checkly that all of these things start adding up. We moved workloads off of S3 to Cloudflare R2 because of this.
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by tnolet 2y ago
Hey Checkly founder here, we changed our infra quite a bit over the last ~1 year. Still, it's mostly ephemeral compute. We started actually on AWS Lambda. We are on a mix of AWS EC2 and EKS now, all autoscaled per region (we run 20+ of
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by tnolet 2y ago
That is awesome. Had no idea this was available as an env var. After diving into OTel for our backend, we also found some of this stuff is just too noisy. We switch it of using this code snippet, for anyone bumping into this thread: in
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by tnolet 2y ago
Hey, I work at Checkly and asked my coworker (who wrote the post) to give some more background on this. I can assure you, we're busy and this was not done for some vanity price!
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We saved 2777hrs of execution using OTEL(checklyhq.com)
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by tnolet 2y ago
I was super in the other camp. Could not sleep if something wasn’t finished. Especially for coding. For marketing I found a (good) blog post can take a couple of days.

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