matthaldeman95 / intuit_craft_demo

Craft demo for Intuit interview - Applications Operations Engineer

intuit_craft_demo

Craft demo for Intuit interview - Applications Operations Engineer

A Django web application that continuously monitors the availability and load time of the websites:

  https://turbotax.intuit.com/?cid=seq_intuit_tt_click_hd
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuit

Features:

• Collects site availability and load time every minute
• Tables and plots display site load times over user configurable time ranges
• If a site is unavailable, an email is sent to myself with the HTTP error code

Dependencies:

• python 2.7

• pip

• virtualenv

        $ sudo pip install virtualenv
  

• matplotlib - Matplotlib has many dependencies that may cause this app to fail. These dependencies include plotly and freetype (which may require a brew installation rather than pip).

  Check here if there are dependency issues with installing matplotlib.

  On Linux:

        $ sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib
  

  On Mac:

        $ sudo pip install matplotlib
  

• django_tables2 - This is in the requirements.txt file but sometimes does not play nicely with it.

        $ sudo pip install django_tables2
  

All other dependencies should be handled by the requirements.txt file.

Set up virtual environment and run development server

Clone or download this project, and cd into that directory. Create a virtual environment and enter it:

        $ virtualenv venv
        $ source venv/bin/activate

Download and install all of the requirements:

        $ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the Django development server:

        $ python manage.py runserver

Using your favorite web browser, go to 127.0.0.1:8000/dashboard

I got the job :)