Dashboard

Pulseboard

A real-time service monitoring board that streams a million events per minute into readable charts.

Project data

Operators watched dozens of tabs and still missed incidents.

The board had to aggregate on the server and render smoothly on a wall display.

How it was built

Six phases from the first conversation to the release. The bar shows how the time was split.

6 weeks in total

Research
On-call engineers replayed recent incidents and marked where the first signal had been missed.
3 days · Incident timeline
Architecture
Data model, rendering strategy and API contracts were agreed before the first screen was drawn.
4 days · ADR, data model
Interface
A component inventory and responsive layouts, built entirely from design tokens.
4 days · Token set, component inventory
Build
Features went live in small slices behind flags, with typed boundaries between client and server.
12 days · Feature slices
Testing
Unit, end-to-end and accessibility checks ran on every pull request.
4 days · Test suite in CI
Deployment
Every branch got a preview environment; the production rollout was a single click.
3 days · Preview and release pipeline
Result
Mean time to detect incidents fell from nine minutes to under two.
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