Show HN: Speed of all of your processes across entire stack in one dashboard I built Checkpoints App out of my experience of not being able to quickly and easily measure the speed of processes across my tech stack in my startup. All startups optimize for speed in all of their operations: deploying code, responding to API requests, loading the UI, and in background processes such as sending emails to users or processing data in an ETL pipeline. But the tools available to measure the performance of all these operations are separate and time-costly to integrate, in the first place. Checkpoints App allows you to measure the speed of processes across your entire stack with minimal overhead and collects that data into a single dashboard. Integrating it into your tech stack is as easy as dropping a `print()` statement in your code, while you're writing it. It comes with client-side Python, JS and Bash scripts. You drop checkpoint statements anywhere in the code, defining a process name and checkpoint name, for example: `./checkpoints.sh process1 checkpoint1` where process1 is your process name and checkpoint1 is your checkpoint name. Once you've dropped checkpoints in your code. It will automatically create the process pipelines in your dashboard along with the speed metrics i.e, how long does it take, on average, to go from checkpoint1 to checkpoint2 . Then you can start optimizing for speed. Another major problem I saw was that most lightweight tools out there let you measure performance in a single part of your stack, for example, you need to use Lighthouse in the front-end UI and CloudWatch for your backend API endpoints. With Checkpoints App, however, you can create tailored processes across your tech stack. For example, you can add the first checkpoint in your backend and the second checkpoint in your front end. I'd love to hear your feedback. If you'd like to try this out, signup at the landing page and I'll send you the access. https://ift.tt/zRgV9BE October 6, 2022 at 02:40AM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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