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Cronitor.ioFeb 183 min read

The JIT Startup

A few nights ago, nearly two years after my co-founder and I wrote the first lines of code for Cronitor, I finally added the ability for a user to change their email address. Why did it take two years to add a near universal feature for any SaaS service? Truth be told, even though we’ve grown our…

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Cronitor.ioNov 4, 20154 min read

Scaling Django: Breaking out not breaking up

We launched Cronitor in June 2014 after a few weeks of hacking on an MVP. With an eye on shipping quickly we built everything within Django, including our crucial ping tracking endpoints, and it was a valuable force multiplier. The first version of our…

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Cronitor.ioNov 4, 20154 min read

How to handle large requests with Nginx and uWSGI (and several ways not to)

At Cronitor, our primary engineering objective is to never miss a tracking ping. We process ping requests into telemetry data and a missed ping can lead to errant reporting and, even worse, false…

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