
29. Build for Value, Not for Applause: Product Management Under Heavy Constraints
The Bootstrapped Founder
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Measure the Hot Pass and Our Application, the Story Got
We started measuring four performance bottlenecks in our backend code very early and it never cost any trouble. We had an integration into a service called app signal that would measure the database calls and computational performance of our backend logic. So we thought, we need this in the front end too. And I built some code. It's always a great opening to a really, really dangerous story. This first version of our front end usage metrics included all events, all possible things that I could measure. What I didn't think about was that our event storage service charged per event scans,. Like poor, per different kind of event that they would ingest into the system. The costs went back to normal
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