johns

20,431 karma · joined March 11, 2008

Previously:

  Runscope (Co-founder, acquired 2017)
  Twilio (first Developer Evangelist)
  IFTTT
  Xamarin

twitter.com/johnsheehan

johnsheehan at gmail

johnson Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go

Why not post a comment on the post itself with constructive criticism?

johnson How to Deploy Software

So keep it. Ditch the under construction stuff instead if you have customers.

johnson Yahoo is officially for sale

Fantasy Football

johnson How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone

That's too bad. A cover letter is 100x more valuable than a resume.

johnson The Product Engineer

If you want to work at a startup, the earlier they are they more likely that every engineer is a product engineer. The bigger companies get, the less generalists are relied upon.

johnson Buffer Acquired Social Media Customer Service Tool Respondly

As a team, we all are tweeting all the time, not just replying. I want our original tweets and our responses in a single place. Bigger teams may be more specialized (support vs. marketing) but we're small and like single tools that serve multiple needs.

johnson Buffer Acquired Social Media Customer Service Tool Respondly

This is a perfect fit. Both products are really well done and incredibly polished. I've repeatedly asked the Respondly team to build Buffer-like scheduling into their product so I'm really excited to see them combine.

johnson A bird's eye view on API development

oauthbible.com

johnson The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

I was super excited about this feature. In practice, it's nice for moving the cursor a long way quickly, but the finer stuff isn't any faster. It also tends to shift as I left my finger so it makes being precise difficult.

johnson Data Infrastructure at IFTTT

I used to work at IFTTT and this exact set of problems is why I left to start a company. Pretty much everything I've done in the intervening years has stemmed from exactly what you describe. It's great to see the IFTTT team tackle this stuff head on.

johnson Why Europe’s Trains Are So Much Better Than America's

However, it is across the street from a major international airport.

johnson Httpbin – HTTP Client Testing Service

jsonip.org too :)

johnson Httpbin – HTTP Client Testing Service

I think it was something called 'ronn' https://github.com/Runscope/httpbin/issues/200

johnson Httpbin – HTTP Client Testing Service

try https://yourapihere.com :) (all other endpoints are the same as httpbin)

johnson Httpbin – HTTP Client Testing Service

Awesome! Is this your project? If so, email me john@runscope.com

johnson Httpbin – HTTP Client Testing Service

You might like mocky.io, mockable.io or jsonstub.com

johnson Httpbin – HTTP Client Testing Service

It was hosted in an EU-based datacenter on Heroku (to reduce latencies, not for any specific privacy reasons), but I need to check to see if we are still hosting it there.

johnson Httpbin – HTTP Client Testing Service

We've discussed doing an "TLSBin" as you described (and still might) but it's a lot of work. We'd gladly sponsor one! This is something I wish Qualys/SSL Labs would do.

johnson Httpbin – HTTP Client Testing Service

Thanks for reposting this. We recently took this over from Kenneth Reitz and I'd love to hear your suggestions for improvements or additions.

johnson Gotty – Share your terminal as a web application

johnson A Guide to PR for Startups

s/guy/person

johnson Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends

Apigee didn't buy Swagger. SmartBear did.

johnson Introduction to Microservices

If you're interested in our experience on starting on microservices from scratch with only 2 people, I gave a talk on it: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/queues-proxy-microservice...

I agree they're not for every team, but it definitely allowed us to move, grow and scale faster than other dev environments I've worked in.

johnson Microservices-Infrastructure 0.3.1 Adds DigitalOcean, vSphere, and Chronos

Plans to add monitoring components to this? Our API monitoring tool is very popular in our customer's microservices architectures: https://www.runscope.com/docs/radar

johnson Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac

https://www.runscope.com/docs/radar/assertions

You can do a whole slew of functional tests and as a bonus you can use those same tests for monitoring if you want.

johnson Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac

Try Runscope (disc: founder) for that. Paw is my favorite desktop app but we are purpose built for automated testing and monitoring.

johnson Ask HN: What stack technologies to use to build analytics platform?

InfluxDB

johnson Ask HN: API as a service

Kong from Mashape perhaps?

Be sure to test/monitor with Runscope too :)

johnson Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool

ghostinspector.com (one of the products from my company)

johnson Danielle Morrill: Mattermark CEO. Early Riser. Boredom Killer.

She writes code. Does it matter when she started? Danielle wrote much of Referly and continued to write code at Mattermark even as the team grew. She also wrote numerous Twilio apps while we worked there together.