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gaffneycon We raised a bunch of money

I'm a pretty happy Fly.io customer and glad to see the direction things have been going overall. While it's great to see Fly is getting more resources to continue improving and building the business I worry about the inevitable VC Countdown Clock to Exit.

What does this new round mean for Fly's long term independence?

gaffneycon Curl 8 Is Faster

I didn't realize curb was still maintained. Would be helpful to report the issue here: https://github.com/taf2/curb/issues

gaffneycon Curl 8 Is Faster

Which gem? There are several that bind against libcurl.

gaffneycon Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

We recently swapped our metrics to Grafana Cloud and were really surprised (despite being documented) that pricing is based on samples per minute not metrics series. So, for example, if we send a metric every 15s (the Prometheus default) then we get charged as if that were four separate metrics. Support was very helpful explaining everything and they reversed the charge but it still feels weird.

gaffneycon Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

Hopefully what you’re monitoring is valuable to you or the company you’re working for (otherwise why monitor it?).

If you have a personal project and need a few extra monitors (Snitches) then reach out to support. Happy to help out any way we can.

gaffneycon Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

Close but not quite.

1 is always free (includes email notifications)

$5/month for 3 with email notifications

$19/month adds integrations for notifications through services like Slack, PagerDuty, and Squadcast (among others).

gaffneycon Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

Simple and reliable take a surprising amount of time to get right. We would rather move slowly and cautiously because we have thousands of operations folks who could have a really bad time if we rush something that causes folks to get paged at 2am or lose trust in the system.

Also, we’re bad at talking about the work we do. It’s the classic trap a lot of engineering founders fall into.

gaffneycon Dead Man's Snitch – A Dead Simple Cron Job Monitoring Service

Lead developer behind Dead Man’s Snitch here :wave:

We are definitely not in “maintenance mode” and have a lot of things in the works. With the last couple of years being what they’ve been things have often taken longer than we’d like but they’re certainly in motion.

edit: fixed tpyo