Last year I created a visualization of our private leaderboard [1], but that required same manual work to update the ranking each day.

So for this year I've converted it to a browser extension, so it fetches the data automatically :) Available for both Firefox [2] and Chrome [3].

[1] https://github.com/amochtar/aoc-ranking [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aoc-ranking/ [3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aoc-ranking/jbnlaf...

If you want to try the new Connect feature from Consul yourself, we've put up an interactive tutorial on our Instruqt learning platform, together with the nice folks at HashiCorp: https://play.instruqt.com/hashicorp/tracks/connect

this instruqt thingy is pretty cool, it's actually addictive. I started with the Connect course and I'm not going for Istio:

> Please wait while we setup a Kubernetes cluster with Istio preinstalled. In the meantime, browse through these notes to learn more about the sample application.

damn

Thanks!

We also like apps and services that start faster better ;-)

Oh what I meant to say is, it's a real kubernetes cluster, it's a good thing.

:-/ Can I use this without signing up? I would bet your bounce rate is pretty high.

Sorry not yet. As we're spinning up actual infrastructure, the signup is a way for us to keep tabs on usage.

We are working on a anonymous user login though, but that's not yet available.

I found the tutorial steps unclear and got stuck at setting up the postgres test