That's a bad name for selling it in Germany. It is used as the name of Atomic waste trains [1] here and these were often in the press, because of protests agains further production of atomic waste and the assumed ineptitude of a potential final diposal site.
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#42promising. it even has a clock widget :-)
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#43Was I the only one who found that website really annoying? Everything animated, chat popping up when I didn't want it.
No you're not. Personally I find it really annoying. I hope this is a fad, along with the photos showing through "holes" as you scroll down a page. At least this is a landingpage and not a long form article, but even as a landing page I feel it is distracting. Why can't people just make really good design like you'd have in print, on a relatively static page. I guess it's the medium that calls for it. Hey, we have Ja…
> it's one of those things that looks cool, and is ok in moderation. But when it's used too much it's just distracting.
I always likened it to salt: A little on my food enhances the flavor. A block of salt ruins my meal.
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#44you should check the readme, I got a 404 error at https://docs.getcastor.com/getting-started.md
There is also a typo in the first screenshot on the homepage ("PROJET" heading).
Not so much a typo as a forgotten translation of "project" from French.
You'll also notice that "state" and "assigned to" were also left in French.
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#45One of the things that really hit home at my last job and that I see missing from a lot of these dashboards is comparative context. So I walk in in the morning and we have a dashboard for vists and signups / payments and it shows lots of visits and no payments. Is that normal? Is that expected or concerning? Without showing what it was yesterday at the same time or on the same day last week, or weekly/monthly avg how…
I would like to know "am I above the ___th percentile for any timeout metric" right now vs. last week / month / etc.
I am just getting started with Graphite and wondering how to do this across all of the timeout metrics at the same time on the same graph. (It would probably be an all-or-nothing scenario but there is a chance only a portion of the system is affected by something...)
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well there's Dashing from Shopify which has been around since 2012. We use it at the office and are happy with it. https://github.com/Shopify/dashing
Apparently dashing is not being maintained anymore. Check its homepage. http://dashing.io
IMO it doesn't need updates. It's stable has tons of widgets and works out of the box.
Loving it even though I have never touched ruby before.
In combination with graphite I can make some cool statistics and graphs
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#47One of the things that really hit home at my last job and that I see missing from a lot of these dashboards is comparative context. So I walk in in the morning and we have a dashboard for vists and signups / payments and it shows lots of visits and no payments. Is that normal? Is that expected or concerning? Without showing what it was yesterday at the same time or on the same day last week, or weekly/monthly avg how…
What you are looking for is a BI (business intelligence) tool. Those typically include dashboard but also look at trends - both automatically and programmatically via your own scripting. Looker is probably my favorite currently but it depends on your needs really.
I know what you're saying, I'm often bad at meandering past the point I'm thinking of with a non-focused example.
I guess in a nutshell I feel like these dashboard products, while well meaning and often very well crafted are just throwing things at your eye sockets. Showing data because you have data is not a solution in of itself.
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#48One of the things that really hit home at my last job and that I see missing from a lot of these dashboards is comparative context. So I walk in in the morning and we have a dashboard for vists and signups / payments and it shows lots of visits and no payments. Is that normal? Is that expected or concerning? Without showing what it was yesterday at the same time or on the same day last week, or weekly/monthly avg how…
I'm the founder of Notion (usenotion.com) and one of the reasons we built Notion is we experienced the gaps with just a TV-style dashboard. Historical trends and context were definitely missing. We even deployed Tableau (so $$$) across my last company to find no one really used it.
We're trying to tackle this entire experience by building a collaborative data tool that's easy enough for everyone to actually use. It's a good fit for technical leaders that are running non-tech teams or teams that simply don't have the time to spend on connecting all the data sources: Intercom, Github, JIRA, etc.
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#49One of the things that really hit home at my last job and that I see missing from a lot of these dashboards is comparative context. So I walk in in the morning and we have a dashboard for vists and signups / payments and it shows lots of visits and no payments. Is that normal? Is that expected or concerning? Without showing what it was yesterday at the same time or on the same day last week, or weekly/monthly avg how…
It's hard to include that information in a meaningful way on a dashboard. It's much easier to alert on that when a metric deviates by a certain percentage. We used a service called StatHat that did this automatically, but it could easily be written on top of an in-house data source like Influx or Prometheus.
Dashboards are about visualizing how your application works over time, not whether your application is failing. You should know as soon as possible when something has gone wrong and not be waiting until you come in to work in the morning to figure it out. For us, a key stat trending up or down by more than 10% was sent to PagerDuty for someone to investigate. This didn't happen often, but when it did, it was frequently due to something that we were glad we investigated promptly (e.g. abuse/fraud, misbehaving release, etc). It was really rare that we just got that much more or less usage organically.
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#50That's a bad name for selling it in Germany. It is used as the name of Atomic waste trains [1] here and these were often in the press, because of protests agains further production of atomic waste and the assumed ineptitude of a potential final diposal site. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage#Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor
Besides, having the same name as a nuclear waste container seems like a really trivial issue compared to the usual "your name means something dirty or offensive in my language".