Leo Sjöberg on Mythryl: “Whenever I tell people I work on a paging product, I inevitable get…”

Whenever I tell people I work on a paging product, I inevitable get asked a variation of "but if you use your own product, how do you get paged when it breaks?" It's a fun problem to solve, and Lawrence wrote a great post about how we do it 🔥

Lawrence Jones@lawrencejones.dev

"Who watches the watchers?" is funny as a phrase, less so as a problem you need to solve, which it became when building on-call. It's possible for us to receive a page saying "paging is broken" and while I hope we never do, thought it would be fun to share how it works. incident.io/blog/who-wat...

incident.ioHow we page ourselves if incident.io goes down | BlogLearn how we tackle the ultimate paradox: ensuring our alerting system pages us, even when it’s the one failing. It's a common question - let's dive into detail on our "dead man's switch", how we str...

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