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1. What's slow.
2. What's hit frequently.
This combined gives their "agony" ranking for you to fix problems that impact the most. In a very clean UI!
Terrific product. I wish I had Skylight for my Phoenix/Elixir stack.
“Skylight is a smart profiler for Ruby on Rails applications.”
Darn, you beat me to it. Product blog operators, please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16278142
Product blog operators, please label your spam as spam. I presume this was posted by Godfrey Chan (http://www.tilde.io/about-us/), an employee of wycats's company.
If you're building a Rails app, you should be using Skylight. It gives you: 1. What's slow. 2. What's hit frequently. This combined gives their "agony" ranking for you to fix problems that impact the most. In a very clean UI! Terrific product. I wish I had Skylight for my Phoenix/Elixir stack.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be clear about the chronology here, wycats made the decision to go with Rust, then did a lot of work in Rust, then became a core team member. He chose Rust because of his needs in Skylight, not because he was already invested in Rust. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/Core-Team.html > Yehuda Katz will be known to many in the Rust community for his work on the initial design and implementation of the Cargo proj…
For slightly more context, I wrote the first lines of Rust code for Skylight as a spike at the end of 2013, and joined the Rust core team more than a year later. :) I was largely inspired by a blog post in June 2013 by Patrick Walton: Removing Garbage Collection From the Rust Language[1] [1]: http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-c...
[1]: https://twitter.com/sunnyrjuneja/status/951973556170215424
If you're building a Rails app, you should be using Skylight. It gives you: 1. What's slow. 2. What's hit frequently. This combined gives their "agony" ranking for you to fix problems that impact the most. In a very clean UI! Terrific product. I wish I had Skylight for my Phoenix/Elixir stack.
Does it build up a performance profile over time? As in, do you need to serve thousands of requests before you get a picture?
Has anyone used New Relic and switched to Skylight or vice versa? Been looking for some comparisons [1]. [1]: https://twitter.com/sunnyrjuneja/status/951973556170215424
If you're building a Rails app, you should be using Skylight. It gives you: 1. What's slow. 2. What's hit frequently. This combined gives their "agony" ranking for you to fix problems that impact the most. In a very clean UI! Terrific product. I wish I had Skylight for my Phoenix/Elixir stack.
If you're building a Rails app, you should be using Skylight. It gives you: 1. What's slow. 2. What's hit frequently. This combined gives their "agony" ranking for you to fix problems that impact the most. In a very clean UI! Terrific product. I wish I had Skylight for my Phoenix/Elixir stack.
Do you find it significantly better than NewRelic?