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sboak

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About sboak

VP, Product Design @datadoghq. Developer Experience (DX) designer. Co-host of @dontmakemecode. Try my product. Twitter: @sboak www.stephenboak.com

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    Datadog | Engineering, Product, Product Design | NYC, Paris, Remote | datadoghq.com/jobs-engineering At Datadog, we’re on a mission to build the best monitoring platform in the wor…

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    Comment #15419832

    this assumes that phone numbers matter

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    Comment #15151462

    Datadog is hiring in NYC, Paris, and remote https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/ Engineering (almost 40 positions open): https://www.datadoghq.com/jobs-engineering/ Marketing: https:…

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    There was a similar project done for the NYC subway system done 6 years ago: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=69...

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    Comment #12002887

    We have a nice write-up in Stackshare about our stack: http://stackshare.io/opsee-co/how-opsee-chose-a-container-or...

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    Comment #11997098

    Thanks! It's wonderful to hear that the thing our team worked harder on than anything else is appreciated :)

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    Comment #11997080

    The biggest difference is in the way we handle checks inside AWS. When you add our EC2 Instance we automatically discover your infrastructure and track changes. When you create hea…

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    Hi, I'm Steve and I run product at Opsee. There are a few important differences: 1. The rich assertion language in Opsee means we're checking for more than availability - we're loo…

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    James Howard Kunstler gave an incredibly sharp, funny talk called "The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs" on both the history and design problems of the suburbs. https://www.ted.com/t…

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    Comment #11494226

    I've been using Sketch for over a year now, and though it's been a valuable tool (and the integration with Framer is wonderful) it continues to be plagued by bugs and crashes in ev…

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    Thanks! Fixed.

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    Comment #11392262

    Yes, definitely. That will become more clear when we launch support for RDS/SQL health checks in the next few weeks. The biggest differentiator between us and these OSS tools is ea…

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    Co-founder here. The big difference, compared with tools like Pingdom, is that we're operating inside your environment. We can tell you where the failure happened and give you tool…

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    Comment #11261858

    I'm going to risk a plug since our service is highly relevant. If you're using AWS, Opsee will let you define service-level health checks and automatically detect instance membersh…