While working from home during quarantine, the Wix.com team launched a new service. It was important for Infrastructure Team Lead Yonatan Mevorach to keep tabs on its metrics, but he didn’t have a second monitor just for displaying Grafana dashboards like they do in the office. But then Yonatan had a “Eureka!” moment. He decided to transform the mini arcade machine that was collecting dust on his desk into a Grafana monitor. Only one problem though: He knew nothing about electronics, soldering, or tinkering with hardware in general. But Yonatan didn’t let that stop him!
In this talk, Yonatan will showcase this wacky project and explain how lowly software engineers can become mighty hardware hackers. He’ll cover:
- How to reverse-engineer the functionality of existing devices
- How to give them “Raspberry-pi brains”
- How to use the Grafana API to render graphs to the screen’s display-driver
- How to solder everything together
- Yonatan Mevorach
Infrastructure Team Lead at Wix.com
Yonatan Mevorach
Infrastructure Team Lead at Wix.com
Yonatan is a Team Lead in the Frontend Infrastructure group at Wix.com, where he is able to make his love for creating developer tools a part of his daily work. He also enjoys working on open source developer tools, and blogs about them at blog.yonatan.dev.