Honest notes from the two of us on change-aware incident response, on-call ergonomics, and what bootstrapped engineering looks like up close.
The single question every on-call engineer asks first, and why the tools we already pay for don't answer it. The case for a small, change-aware incident-response tool.
Datadog and PagerDuty weren't built for a team of 12. We were tired of being on-call with the wrong tools, so we built the one we wished we had at 2 AM.
Two engineers, one product, a few dozen deploys a week. Here's how we wire our own deploys, alerts, and config changes into the same tool we sell.
We have a tiny in-house DSL — ReQL — that lets us add a new webhook source in minutes, hot-reloaded into production, without touching the ingestion server. Here's why.
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