What Tools Personal Best Uses

“In 2020 I didn’t have any way of tracking active users, but in June 2021 I added TelemetryDeck. Amongst other things, this lets me see how many daily active users Personal Best has.”

Codakuma high

“When deciding how to integrate the in-app purchase, using RevenueCat was a no brainer. I’d previously tried integrating an in-app purchase for a tip jar without using any third-party frameworks, and I found it quite challenging to get my head around. On the other hand, integrating RevenueCat was ...”

Revenuecat high

“I used the excellent Pricetag app to do this with the Apple Music Index as the basis for my pricing.”

Codakuma high

“I also added server-driven notifications powered by OneSignal, so I can notify users about things like when their Year in Review is available.”

Codakuma high

“We use TypeScript for all our front-end code, combined with React and Next.js.”

Duffel high

“Finally, right at the peak of the pyramid, we have a great setup for local manual testing with Docker which is all we need to test features in most cases.”

Duffel high

“If anything goes wrong in production, we get alerted via Sentry; and for urgent errors like major issues with our API, the on-call engineers will get a nice, friendly call from PagerDuty.”

Duffel high

“All our apps are hosted on Google Cloud Platform where we work closely with our colleagues on the infrastructure side.”

Duffel high

“On the observability side, we use Prometheus and Thanos along with Grafana for metrics and reporting.”

Duffel high

“For all our analytical needs, Metabase is the tool of choice. It also comes with some neat data visualisation features to better understand product feature use.”

Duffel high

“Other than our CI/CD pipeline we define every piece of our infrastructure declaratively in our Terraform codebase, which is kept in a consistent state with Atlantis.”

Duffel high

“We use Storybook as a source of truth for our components, and we subscribe to Chromatic which gets us visual testing with little effort.”

Duffel high

“Once a developer’s code has passed our test suite in CircleCI and has been approved by some of their colleagues they can merge their PRs.”

Duffel high

“On the observability side, we use Prometheus and Thanos along with Grafana for metrics and reporting.”

Duffel high

“On the tooling side, we’re using Webpack (although Next handles most of our tooling for us) plus ESLint and Prettier for code formatting.”

Duffel high

“On the tooling side, we’re using Webpack (although Next handles most of our tooling for us) plus ESLint and Prettier for code formatting.”

Duffel high

“If anything goes wrong in production, we get alerted via Sentry; and for urgent errors like major issues with our API, the on-call engineers will get a nice, friendly call from PagerDuty.”

Duffel high

“ArgoCD picks up this update to deploy the corresponding container to our Kubernetes cluster managed with Google Kubernetes Engine.”

Duffel high

“When we want to test new features on the Duffel platform, we use feature toggles via an Unleash service. This is great for both gradual release and emergency control.”

Duffel high

“Other than our CI/CD pipeline we define every piece of our infrastructure declaratively in our Terraform codebase, which is kept in a consistent state with Atlantis.”

Duffel high

“We also keep an anonymised development replica of our database using Draupnir.”

Duffel high

“We use Postgres as our database – via CloudSQL on Google Cloud Platform – and PgBouncer to manage our database connection pool.”

Duffel high

“For getting our bearings in the production database, we use SchemaSpy; and for all our analytical needs, Metabase is the tool of choice.”

Duffel high

“On the observability side, we use Prometheus and Thanos along with Grafana for metrics and reporting.”

Duffel high

“To track and collaborate on incidents, we use incident.io directly in Slack, which is a great way to keep communication flowing and resolve things quickly.”

Duffel high

“An Ecto wrapper is used in all database interactions for its powerful query, schema definition, and data validation capabilities.”

Duffel high

“Swoosh is used for both internal and external mailing which was originally created by our CEO, Steve Domin and is now maintained by the community.”

Duffel high

“We write snapshot tests using Jest and React Testing Library and end-to-end tests with Puppeteer.”

Duffel high

“We write snapshot tests using Jest and React Testing Library and end-to-end tests with Puppeteer.”

Duffel high

“To track and collaborate on incidents, we use incident.io directly in Slack, which is a great way to keep communication flowing and resolve things quickly.”

Duffel high

“We use Storybook as a source of truth for our components, and we subscribe to Chromatic which gets us visual testing with little effort.”

Duffel high

“Naturally, our front-end developers work very closely with the design team, who use Figma.”

Duffel high

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Getpersonalbest high

“We’re explicitly opposed to silos and ‘throwing things over the wall’ so the design team are all comfortable using GitHub, pull requests, and contributing code.”

Duffel high