Engineering

Building On-call: Continually testing with smoke tests

Launching On-call meant we had to make our system rock-solid from the get-go. Our solution? Smoke tests to let us continually test product health and make sure we're comfortable making changes at pace.

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Rory Malcolm

11 min read
Article

Introducing SEV0

Welcome to our first-ever conference, taking place this September.

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Stephen Whitworth

3 min read
Data

Data stack 2024

It's been nearly 2 years since our last update on our data stack—and we have a lot to share! Read about improvements to our local dev setup, why we switched key platforms, and some other cool things. 👀

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Jack Colsey

11 min read
Article

Where does the time go after you resolve an incident?

We were curious: where does the time go after an incident is resolved? To find out, we analyzed the post-incident process of 13,000 incidents and 14,000 follow-ups action items.

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Eryn Carman

8 min read
Data

How our data team handles incidents

Data incidents are just like any other type of incident, and having a well defined data incident management process in place makes it a lot less stressful when things inevitably break. Here's how our team does it.

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Navo Das

7 min read
Data

The Tasty Data Morsel: Data delight as company culture

Feeling hungry? We love to spice up our weekly all-hands meetings with the Tasty Data Morsel: a bite-sized insight covering everything from our sales velocity to the most popular Christmas party dishes. These data treats make numbers not just digestible but downright delicious.

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Matilda Hultgren

5 min read
Engineering

Scoping week

A few months back, we launched On-call with a solid set of features—but that was just the start. To keep the wheels turning, we recently held a "scoping week" where we paired up, tackled ambiguities, and nailed down our project roadmap. Here's how we did it.

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Leo Sjöberg

8 min read
Article

A tough day for incident responders: lessons from the CrowdStrike update

Today marks a particularly challenging day for incident responders across the globe. As many of you may have noticed, a recent update from CrowdStrike has triggered widespread disruptions, causing chaos in various sectors.

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Stephen Whitworth

4 min read
Working with time
Engineering

Building On-call: Time, timezones, and scheduling

Time is tricky, but building our On-call scheduler meant getting cozy with all of its quirks— and lots of testing. No "time" like the present to dive in!

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Henry Course

17 min read

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