Checkly's company blog on synthetic monitoring, covering browser automation benchmarks, SaaS architecture, bootstrapping costs, and founder lessons.
HN commenters cite it for its multi-tenant SaaS data model write-up and the Cypress, Selenium, Playwright and Puppeteer speed comparison, which the author confirmed was written after requests.
I would love to see some "plug and play" user account management. Like handling registration (with confirmation emails), updating/deleting data, build in handling of changing password to increase complexity over time (or forcing change when some leak happen), some protection from login attacks, account levels (and simple adding new level over time), feature toggles, build in multitenancy (so I don't need to code it later when page grow and need it, something like [1]), using ULID (or something similar) instead simple incremental number for ID, build in login history, some login security features (like email on each login, block account login if someone try login from predefined/differen country and email user about that with unblock/allow access link) and more high level stuff (like account anonymising instead of deleting for reporting). So all the stuff that is good to have when you need it but you don't have time to work on it when you focus on business logic.
[1]: https://blog.checklyhq.com/building-a-multi-tenant-saas-data-model/
Author here. To provide some context, this article was written as a follow up to our previous benchmark (https://blog.checklyhq.com/puppeteer-vs-selenium-vs-playwright-speed-comparison/) after a lot of folks requested we add Cypress. Initially I was not sure this would be a good idea, as Cypress has a different focus and scope, but the sheer number of requests convinced me some folks out there might benefit. I hope this is helpful.
Their product is great.
But the people I met there last year during a maybe-but-not-quite acquihire adventure we're also great. I wish them all the best with this IPO.
For those interested, I wrote a blog about what it's like for a solo founder to (almost) be picked up by company like Datadog.
https://blog.checklyhq.com/my-acquihire-adventure-with-a-large-tech-company/
I coded it manually as the business logic is so Data Fetcher specific I don't think a library would help much. This blog post does an amazing job of explaining the approach you need: https://blog.checklyhq.com/building-a-multi-tenant-saas-data-model/
I use DO too, but they have deleted a lot of customer data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665
https://blog.checklyhq.com/why-the-recent-digital-ocean-killed-my-company-incident-scares-the-hell-out-of-me/
Keep your stuff backed up.
"the vast majority of companies do not have to worry about violating the terms of services of cloud providers"
https://blog.checklyhq.com/why-the-recent-digital-ocean-killed-my-company-incident-scares-the-hell-out-of-me/