Added Investigative Tool to Metrics App
This morning, with the right help, I was able to put up a slick little javascript JSON viewer on the main 'metrics' web page for the project I'm on at The Shop. The goal of this is really a quick way to allow folks - both developers and support folks, to look at the details of the Demand objects in the demand service. Since each demand has a UUID, it's possible to look at the series of the demand objects as it "flows" through the service and is adjusted, combined, and delivered to the client.
I have to say that I'm very impressed with the speed of the clojure service. Then again, it's java, and there's not all that much to it - there's the indexed postgres table, a select statement, and then formatting. Sure, that's a simplification, but it's not like we're delivering streaming video or something. But wow! It's fast.
And the regex-based JSON classifier in javascript is pretty impressive as well. It's fast and clean and the CSS is a lot of fun to play with in the syntax highlighting. I can really see how much fun this can be. Big time sink, if I played with it too much.
But it's nice to punch it out and make it available on the much improved unicorn/nginx platform. Those timeouts are gone, and the code is much simpler, and that's a wonderful thing.