Checkly Blog
blog.checklyhq.com · Company blog · on HN since 2019
Checkly's company blog on synthetic monitoring, covering browser automation benchmarks, SaaS architecture, bootstrapping costs, and founder lessons.
What HN saysHN 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.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Cypress vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. Puppeteer speed comparison5 people · 48 points · first shared 2021 · 2 comments on HN
- 2Why I Pick Heroku over AWS Lambda but Not Always4 people · 10 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 3Why the “Digital Ocean killed my company” incident scares the hell out of me3 people · 316 points · first shared 2019 · 180 comments on HN
- 4Building a multi-tenant SaaS data model3 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 5Managing EU VAT with Stripe for a SaaS is not that hard3 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 6We open-sourced our pay calculator for fair and transparent pay2 people · 11 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 7A bootstrapped SaaS cost teardown – and the nuance2 people · 10 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 8Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes1 people · 254 points · first shared 2019 · 67 comments on HN
- 9How I manage customer feedback for my bootstrapped SaaS1 people · 252 points · first shared 2019 · 35 comments on HN
- 10How we manage plans and features in our SaaS app1 people · 159 points · first shared 2019 · 41 comments on HN
- 11Our Stripe Billing implementation and the one webhook to rule them all1 people · 138 points · first shared 2019 · 33 comments on HN
- 12Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO1 people · 118 points · first shared 2020 · 29 comments on HN
- 13From bootstrapped to VC backed in three months1 people · 14 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 14How we dogfood our own monitoring SaaS at Checkly1 people · 10 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15Checkly now supports playwright/test1 people · 10 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
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andycloke · 2022-08-18
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/
ragog · 2021-02-01
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-c… 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.
tnolet · 2019-08-23
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-co…
Matrixik · 2022-02-04
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/
djbusby · 2022-01-27
The checkly folk recently published this
https://blog.checklyhq.com/cypress-vs-selenium-vs-playwright-vs-puppet…
Cypress vs Selenium vs Playwright vs Puppeteer speed comparison
ClumsyPilot · 2021-02-14
"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-comp…
itake · 2020-01-12
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-comp…
Keep your stuff backed up.