Debugging Google data services with Wireshark and socat
Getting info from Google Analytics seemed like a pretty straightfoward job. Authenticate with OAuth, connect to the Data Feed, ask for JSON, parse, done. Luck had it that the library we’re heavily...
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Runtime code modification. Erlang? No, Python.
Here at Ducksboard we have a seriously bad engineer. While most of us are inspired hackers, there is this one individual that many a time uploaded code to production servers which resulted in woe,...
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Let’s make a distributed hackathon!
What’s all the fuss about? At Ducksboard, we believe in push. We believe that polling is passé. We believe that coming around every five seconds and asking what’s up is not something a polite person...
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Announcing the hackathon results
We’re very happy to announce that the first Ducksboard hackathon has officially concluded. We’d like to thank all the participants and the people who voted for the best projects on our hackathon page....
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WebSockets, Erlang and shattered glass
Here in our cozy nest at Ducksboard, we’re big fans of real-time. That’s why we’ve built our real-time business metrics dashboard using the latest and greatest of Web technology, namely WebSockets....
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Introducing the Ducksboard API
We’ve been busy little ducklings as of late, working night shifts on things that were not visible to the user’s eye. Initially, Ducksboard launched with a push API that allowed users to send their own...
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Ducksboard: Proud sponsor of TwilioCon 2012 Hackathon
Ducksboard will be proudly sponsoring the second annual TwilioCon 2012 which takes place from the 16th to the 18th of October, at San Francisco´s Concourse Exhibition Center. Not only will we be...
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When duty calls, literally: making Twilio calls from Zabbix
To paraphrase a quote from Cecil DeMille, the way to make a blog post is to begin with an earthquake and work up to a climax. Let’s start with a video of me stopping a process on one of Ducksboard‘s...
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How Zapier made us support a hundred new services in half an hour
Hi, we’re Ducksboard and we’re addicted to APIs. We’re making online real-time dashboards for business metrics. This is a tale of how Zapier made our job a hundred times easier. As dashboardwrights, we...
View ArticleIn which the widgets are set free
We put a lot of care in our widgets. We conceived them, nurtured them, fed them the best and most precise data available. We’re very proud of how they came up and we dearly love every one of them. It’s...
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