Yesterday a few of us at the office were noticing that we hadn't gotten an alert in the #monitoring channel in Slack for over a week. We get alerts every time error rate on dev.to pass a certain threshold.
@maestromac investigated. When I caught up with him a little while later about the issue, this was the prognosis:
Everything's fine with the monitoring. Turns out the site's just more stable.
Have you ever heard a more beautiful utterance?
We lowered the threshold a bit, and should expect an alert now and then at the new level.
Happy coding ❤️
I'm certain I've just jinxed it, so expect some significant downtime.
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Stellar job, guys! Keep it up. Thank you for the hard work you put into this community. It means a lot to everyone here.
What do you mean by "error rate"?
Percentage of web requests which fail.
Best of luck. I’m praying for you.
Maybe we could add a new observation here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of...
I use Sentry in one project and it's a good feeling to get the weekly reports after an update when the error rate has gone down 40% or so.
The error graphs approaching a flat-line more and more XD
At a previous company, one day, I looked into the server room and noticed a lot of red lights flashing on disks. I ran to the admin and told him, but he shrugged and told me "just because the lights are flashing red, doesn't mean there's something wrong"
Amazing! Great job @dev.to team!
Ben what's your take on Elixir? I see so many benefits. Have you ever considered using it for Dev.to?
I think it’s pretty sweet. Never seriously considered it for dev.to unless it just plugged right in nicely.
If we grow and find some time to be more exploratory (or have more dire scaling needs), it’ll definitely get some stronger consideration.
One pretty interesting thing for the future is Rust interop usehelix.com
Whoa, thanks. This is really cool.
Ahahh I pictured Mac going back to check knobs and levers and gauges with one of those yellow safety hats with the embedded torchlight
We should have these kinds of props handy now that I think about it
That's so cool to hear, nice job!
Just curious, how do you usually justify the current threshold and if it should be lowered or raised?
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