Rory Bain's posts

Building On-call: Building a multi-platform on-call mobile app

What does it take to build a greenfield mobile app in 2024? When we launched On-call earlier this year, we had to find out.

We used GPT-4 during a hackathon—here's what we learned

We learned a lot about using OpenAI and which things to keep an eye on to decide when it’s worth revisiting.

Battling database performance

Earlier this year, we experienced intermittent timeouts in our application — here’s how we tried to address the underlying issue over the next two weeks.

Game Day: Stress-testing our response systems and processes

Improving the way we respond to larger, more complex incidents.

How we do realtime response with incident.io, Sentry & PagerDuty

Like most tech companies, we use an on-call rota and various alerting tools. We do this to respond to incidents before they’re reported. In this post, I’d like to share how exactly we have it set up.