Shutterstock

Shutterstock is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations and videos to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Shutterstock works closely with its growing contributor community of photographers, videographers, illustrators and designers to curate a global marketplace for royalty-free imagery.

Location: New York, NY

Test all the (Network) Things by Dan McCormick

Nov 152013
 

Test all the (Network) Things

(Contributor article “Test all the (Network) Things by Dan McCormick” SVP of Technology at Shutterstock. Originally appeared on )

Our engineering team supports many different sites, including the , the , the , Bigstock, Offset, and Skillfeed

All these sites rely on a core set of REST services for functionality like authentication, payment, and search. Since these core services are so critical, we need to know if they’re functioning properly at all times, and get alerted if they aren’t. There are plenty of solutions for server-level monitoring, but we couldn’t find a good, simple solution for service or API monitoring. So we built one. It’s called , fornetwork testing framework, and it’s part of a large collection of .

Slide & Bio…

Real-Time Metrics w/ Rickshaw & Node.js

Aug 222012
 

Here’s the audio from the recent Node.js group in NYC featuring David Chester discussing real-time metrics using Rickshaw.

It makes a big difference to be able to see change as it happens. In this talk we’ll take a tour of open-source tools that let us aggregate and visualize client-side and server-side events for real-time analytics and monitoring.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Slides

Proudly hosted by WPEngine