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We’re building the best way for your whole organization to respond, review and learn from incidents. This is where we talk about how and why.

Engineering

What it meant for me to give away my Lego

If you join an early-stage startup, you'll probably have to give away your Lego one day. Here's what I learned when I had to part with mine.

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Lisa Karlin Curtis

6 min read
Engineering

How we boost productivity with Raycast

At incident.io, we've used Raycast since V1. Here's how it's helped boost our productivity.

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Charlie Revett

4 min read
Engineering

Taking the fear out of migrations

Migrations can be scary: here’s how we run migrations at incident.io to keep things simple and safe

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Lisa Karlin Curtis

10 min read
Engineering

Game Day: Stress-testing our response systems and processes

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

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Rory Bain

12 min read
Engineering

Intermittent downtime from repeated crashes

This is a technical write-up of an incident on Friday 18th November 2022 where we experienced 13 minutes of downtime from intermittent crashes.

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Lawrence Jones

14 min read
Engineering

Making code-generation in Go more powerful with generics

Go 1.18 added generics to the language a few months ago. Here’s how we’ve combined generics with code generation to make our code safer and easier to read and write.

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Isaac Seymour

10 min read
Engineering

Building a great developer experience at a startup

We’ve invested in our developer experience to help our team ship great a product at pace.

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Lisa Karlin Curtis

8 min read
Engineering

Building Workflows, Part 1 — Core concepts and the Workflow Builder

Part one of a deep-dive into building our workflow engine, covering core workflow concepts and how they are used to power the Workflow Builder.

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Lawrence Jones

21 min read
Engineering

Building Workflows, Part 2 – the executor and evaluation

Part two of the series lookin at the workflow executor, and concluding with an evaluation of the project in terms of developer time, extensibility, and quality of outcome.

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Lawrence Jones

26 min read

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