Tools Reference Guide

A reference guide for every tool we use.

Verison Control

Github Dashboard

Link. See all of our repos.

Server Tools

Heroku

Link
Site hosting

AWS S3

Link. Hosting images and data backups.

Cloudfront

Link. Serves as a CDN for delivering image assets.

Zerigo

Link. Point the DNS to a Domain.

Iron.io

Link. Caching service. (Access through Heroku account).

Firebase

Link. Real time pairing of students for collaborative activities.

Analytics

Mixpanel

Link. Customized events tracking

Google Analytics

Link. General events tracking, better location tracking

Keen

Link. Turn key analytics and events tracking

Monitoring - All Access through Heroku Account

New Relic

Monitor lag spikes

Sentry

Reports errors on the site

Logentries

Reports errors, including timeout errors

AdeptScale

Automatically scales the number of dynos to handle peak load times

Link. Track the concurrent number of users on Empirical Core. Requires permission through Heroku.

Code Quality Checks

CodeClimate

Link. Automated code review.

Travis CI

Link. Continuous integration.

Gemnasium

Link. When our code needs up to be upgraded. https://gemnasium.com/empirical-org/Compass/alerts

Organization

Slack

Link. Chat, file sharing, collaboration

Google Drive

Link. File hosting and sharing

Contentify

Link. Collaboratively edit GitHub hosted markdown Files

Google Calendar

Link. Set meeting times

Google Hangouts

Link. Text and video chat

Streak

Link. Manage contact rolodexes and pipelines

Email Management

Grexit Shared Labels

Link. Collaborative email index

MailChimp

Link. Newsletter Signup Email.

MailGun

Link. Transactional Emails

Accounting

ZenPayroll

Link. Payroll Management

Xero

Link. Bookkeeping