CritterWatch 1.0 dropped yesterday, and you can read the official release on the JasperFx Software site.
This blog post is just me being thankful for all the folks who helped build CritterWatch or test it along the way:
- Babu Annamalai was instrumental in CritterWatch, our company infrastructure, and the Critter Stack in general
- Jeffry Gonzalez helped lay the foundation
- Anne Erdstrieck made CritterWatch (and Marten/Wolverine) a lot better by testing early versions on a very complex and high volume system
- Ben Virkler gave us a lot of feedback on usability and early problems (and we owe Ben some additional improvements for 1.1 that didn’t make the 1.0 wire)
- Laurence Gillian was an early tester
- Several other folks in Discord, and all of that feedback was helpful
And to Oskar Dudycz for all his contributions across the Critter Stack as much of CritterWatch are things that he and I were talking about years ago.
For my part, I founded JasperFx Software on the idea that we’d go down the “Open Core” model with business offerings of consulting, formal support agreements, and training around the Critter Stack tools, then supplement that with commercial add on tools for very advanced features, monitoring, and management. It took much longer than I’d hoped, but a couple months into JasperFx’s fourth year in business, we’re finally realizing the original vision.
And with all this out of the way, it’s time for me to get just a little break then start on CritterWatch 1.1!
The Shade Tree Developer 