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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

Better security for your app's secrets

What comes after your default, out-of-box application secret solution? How do you add security to Heroku's environment variables, or go beyond putting secrets directly into Kubernetes? We've used GCP Secret Manager to improve our app secret handling, and this post shows how you can do the same.

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Lawrence Jones

11 min read
Engineering

Gearing up for LeadDev London 2023!

We're buzzing with excitement as we prepare for a return to LeadDev here in London. Not only are we sponsoring the event (and the real-time captioning) but two of our team (Alicia and Lisa) are speaking this year! Catch us there 27th & 28th June 2023.

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Pete Hamilton

5 min read
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Engineering

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.

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Rory Bain

12 min read
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Engineering

How we built it: incident.io Status Pages

How we a built fast, reliable status page solution in three months.

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Isaac Seymour

9 min read
Engineering

Keep the monolith, but split the workloads

Everybody loves a monolith, but you can hit issues as you scale. Learn how splitting workloads can improve your monolithic architecture's performance and scalability, and understand the trade-offs between monolithic systems and microservices.

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Lawrence Jones

10 min read
Engineering

Developer environments should be cattle, not pets

You shouldn't get too attached to your local environment. Here's why.

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Kelsey Mills

5 min read
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

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