Building Dashboards with Jessica White
How do you know how your software is working? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talk to Jessica White about her experience building dashboards to instrument operations, management and development. The conversation dives into what needs to be measured as well as how to represent those measurements in ways that help people understand - do it wrong and you can actually confuse people, or have your dashboard ignored. Jessica talks about how dashboards have to evolve with business needs. With new goals come new metrics and new dashboards to show those metrics. Your dashboard is no more static than your business is!
Guests:
Jessica White
Jessica White is a software developer with a strong interest in back-end development and all things monitoring. She originally found her passion for code while studying neuroscience, and since switching field hasn’t looked back. Outside of development Jessica founded and organised Women In Tech Nottingham from 2015 to 2017. She is easily bribed with coffee and loves hearing about other people's experiences in technology.
Links:
- GDax https://www.gdax.com/
- Zabbix https://www.zabbix.com/
- Practical Monitoring http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920050773.do
- Grafana https://grafana.com/
- Uptime Robot https://uptimerobot.com/
- Azure Application Insights https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/application-insights/
- Physical dashboards with Raspberry Pi https://learn.adafruit.com/assets/29768