Telimena

Telemetry and Lifecycle Management Engine

Project overview

Telimena is a platform which looks to provide a simple telemetry and app lifecycle support. Simple means as little setup & plumbing effort as possible on the client app. It allows monitoring application usage, exceptions, logging etc., and managing it's lifecycle - automatic updates, rollouts, centralized settings etc. The platform focuses on developers of small-to-medium applications where plugging in any larger and more powerful solutions would be too much effort or cost. Telimena is ready for either internal hosting, as a private instance, or preferably as a multi-tenant cloud platform.

In short, the functional design principles for Telimena are:

• Minimum impact on the client app - Telimena should never break or slow down the application
• Minimum effort to plug it in to client app - It should take as few lines of code as possible to set it up
• Minimum learning curve for starting using the system - It shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to understand how Telimena can be used
• Maximum number of extra-features that the 'big' apps are equipped with to your app - for free - Things like automatic updates, release notes, centralized settings management, centralized logging, event analysis, error catching, beta versions and tester users groups, gathering feedback from users, auditing users etc.

• Maximum integration friendliness - It should be as open and pluggable as possible

  Development principles are:

• Do not reinvent the wheel - unless you want to do stuff differently
• Write tests - preferably integration / end-to-end tests

• Do not rush - it's better to take a bit more time but do something better and more flexible

  Who is it not for:

• Large (enterprise-flagship) applications. If you have a product that has years of history and tens of people working on it full time, then you'll be better off investing a few sprints and creating/connecting something tailored for your needs and budget
• Web applications. Since you don't need the 'lifecycle' management, you might be better off with something else, like ApplicationInsights

• Mobile applications - but only because I have no experience with mobile development :)

  Then who is it for:

• Enterprises with teams (or individuals) creating lots of small-to-medium apps (perhaps for internal productivity?)
• Developers who want to focus on working on their applications' features, not the infrastructure plumbing that is nice-to-have, but not needed on it's own (who cares if your application can have 3 tiers of beta testing teams with automatic update deployment, if it doesn't do the work)

• Developers who need a simple 'all-in-one' solution rather than discovering, learining and plumbing in a separate service for telemetry, separate for filtering errors, separate for supporting application updates, and yet another one for gather 'app feedback' from users

  Current status

  The project is currently in an alpha stage. The parts that are 'done' are usable (and in use) and stable. Telimena require some additional functionalities and redesign in some areas. Well, it's a journey, not a destination ;)

  Contributions

  Any kind of contributions or feedback are very welcome. I am looking for collaborators to add more power into the project. Let me know if you want to help it grow.

  Join the team

  Do you want to collaborate? Join the project at https://crowdforge.io/projects/586