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paprikation Write-up of a project to reduce pager load

Author here

Being on-call is hard, and letting your pager load get out of control really sucks.

We ran a short project to reduce our pager load, and found some good, low-hanging fruit to reduce our pager load while still being confident we'd know when things went wrong.

Have other people ran similar projects? What worked well?

paprikation Kicking off projects at a small startup

Hey - author here. Would love to hear what other folks do to start projects - ours is definitely a work in progress!

paprikation Three pillars of great incident response: clarity, transparency and calm

Hey y'all, author here.

I've had the luck to see some great incident responses, and tried to capture the most important cultural things that created those foundations.

Would love to chat if you have any comments

paprikation How incidents made me a better engineer

Hey! I'm the author of the post.

I changed career from consulting into engineering, and found incidents a super useful way to level up as an engineer.

Now working at a super small startup focussing on incidents - hope y'all find this interesting!

paprikation Leaving a company you like: reflections on GoCardless

Author here, and keen to discuss anything about the content :)