August 2022 Summaries

We want to ease end-to-end monitoring so that you can focus on shipping excellent software instead of figuring out how to monitor and test it. To make products testable, we recommend best practices such as avoiding hard waits, keeping tests short, and using unique and scalable selectors. We also recommend the Playwright testing framework for its developer experience and performance. When running end-to-end tests, consider constant monitoring matching your product's SLAs. To simplify setup, Checkly now offers Browser check templates to get started in seconds. The templates include common scenarios such as filling out forms or navigating between pages, and users can contribute new templates through the public roadmap.

We are a remote-first company that values transparency, asynchronous collaboration, and people's well-being. Our 100% remote team works from wherever they're happiest and most productive, with core working hours from 12 pm to 4 pm CET. We have a one-time infrastructure budget for laptops and home office equipment, as well as a co-working budget for those who want to rent a desk. Our onboarding process is fully remote, and we provide a $1,000 learning & visiting budget per person per year to support career development and training. We prioritize transparency in our communication channels, using tools like Notion, Slack, and GitHub, and encourage written communication. We also have regular 1:1s with managers, team members, and experts on topics where they're looking to grow or need guidance. Our company values include being reliable and trustworthy, assuming good intentions, and fostering social cohesion and a sense of belonging. We offer flexible work hours, paid parental leave, and a generous vacation policy. By prioritizing people's well-being and culture, we aim to create a productive remote-first company where team members can focus on their work without distractions.

Checkly is a tool designed to help developers ship excellent software by providing API and end-to-end monitoring capabilities. The platform enables users to define automated test suites that check all properties constantly, guaranteeing everything is up and running. Synthetic monitoring using headless Chrome allows for testing critical interaction flows on a schedule with JavaScript. Checkly has introduced GitHub Sync, a feature that automatically synchronizes Browser checks from GitHub, allowing developers to develop their Playwright or Puppeteer scripts locally, link them with Checkly, and keep them updated via Git. This feature offers code sync strategies, reuses code, loads local file dependencies, and allows users to structure their code in the same way they do on their machine. The platform is now being dogfooded by Checkly itself, and developers are encouraged to provide feedback on GitHub.