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191: Operational Elixir: What's Supporting the Apps at Felt.com and SleepEasy.app?

Thinking Elixir Podcast

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Creating SleepEasy: Simplifying Website Monitoring and Addressing Challenges

The chapter discusses the creation of SleepEasy, a new service aiming to simplify website monitoring by consolidating different aspects with zero configuration. The speaker shares challenges faced in web scraping due to anti-bot protections, the decision to invest in a high-performance server, and running a server from a personal basement with a battery backup for uptime. Various monitoring solutions like AppSignal, Sentry, Datadog, and New Relic are compared, along with insights on company structure, team size, operational aspects, and handling scaling issues experienced by web applications.

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