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On-call, incident response, and AI SRE. Trusted by leading companies like NVIDIA, Dropbox, Canva, Figma, and more.
Hiring across marketing, engineering, product, GTM, and sales https://rootly.com/careers
Rootly is an AI-native on-call and incident response. Modern Slack and MS Teams native incident management—from your first alert to retrospective. Trusted by 100s of leading companies including NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Grammarly, Elastic, Tripadvisor, and Figma. Hiring across design, engineering, GTM, and sales https://rootly.com/careers#open-roles
Rootly is an AI-native on-call and incident response. Modern Slack and MS Teams native incident management—from your first alert to retrospective. Trusted by 100s of leading companies including NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Grammarly, Elastic, Tripadvisor, and Figma.
Hiring across design, engineering, GTM, and sales https://rootly.com/careers#open-roles
We provide an on-call, incident management, and AI SRE platform. We are used by companies like NVIDIA, LinkedIn, and Dropbox.
We are a YC S21 company with ~100 employees and are very fast-growing. We have 15+ open positions.
It's called AI SRE, and for now, it's mostly targeted at helping on-call engineers investigate and solve incidents. But of course, these agents can also be used proactively to improve reliability.
We offer both a hosted version (https://oncallburnout.com/) and a self-hosted one (https://github.com/Rootly-AI-Labs/On-Call-Burnout-Detector).
Two main reasons: 1) The status page update is not automated. It takes time for the incident management process to go through all the steps and updating the status page is generally not the first one. It's often an overlooked one.
2) The company would rather not communicate that they are/were down, or they are not yet sure of the impact, and therefore don't yet have the correct information to share.
Of course, all modern incident platforms will offer tools to update your page super easily/in real-time. But tooling is generally not the main issue; it's process/information.
We are looking at:
-Objective data: signals from incident management tools (Rootly/PagerDuty), GitHub, and Slack
-Self-reported data: asking the engineers how they feel via short survey
From this, we generate a CBI score (Copenhagen Burnout Inventory). We're still in beta, but we've received positive feedback from our beta testers, especially from manager of large and distributed orgs.
It's fully open-source, you can test it out locally https://github.com/Rootly-AI-Labs/rootly-burnout-detector-we...
Alternatively, we offer a hosted version with mock data, allowing you to play with it. https://www.oncallburnout.com/
If you have any feedback or ideas, shoot them my way :)
Support asked me to let them know when a contact vanishing did so they could gather logs from me phone.
Once I was finally able to see it happen, I reached out. Reported that it had just happened overnight. The customer support said it was too long of a time frame for engineers to investigate because "it generates a lot of logs and that's too much to go through". I could not believe their answer.
I just moved my contacts to Gmail and that was the end of it.
I had entries disappearing from my Contacts (iCloud). The customer support asked for me to get back when I notice the issue so they could get logs to debug. My best friend contact entry disappeared overnight. I called the representative the day of and told him that the contact disappeared between yesterday night and today morning. His answer was that I needed to pinpoint more accurately when the contact disappeared, because iPhone generates a lot of logs and and engineers don’t have time to go through them. Ah!
Needless to say I stopped storing my contacts with iCloud and my trust eroded. “Funny enough” I also had issues with my Health data, years of it disappeared. Support could not do anything. The data magically came back a month later or so.
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However on a morning I realized the contact of a friend I was texting with the night before was gone. I realized the problem was iCloud.
I reach out to Apple support, and after exhausting all the dummy options, the customer support representative admitted that this was a known issue, but they could not find the root cause. And there was no solution to it.
The asked me to monitor my contacts so that I could find when this deletion happen but I would need to give a few minutes range. Because “an iPhone generates a lot of logs and engineers cannot go through them unless we can pinpoint where it exactly happened”.
I thought that pinpointed the bug within a 8 hours range was already good, but the customer’s representative insisted on being accurate within minutes (saying the engineers said that).
Anyway, as all the hard case that I give to Apple Support, the representative said he would follow-up and call me back but never did. So nothing happened.
I move my contacts to Google and just forgot about it.
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While it does help, it is definitely not the best way to get a job.
As my former job, I founded a software engineering school that was very similar to what apprenticeships provide: hands-on learning. We did not have teachers, no lectures, students were learning by working on coding projects, very easy at the beginning, reaching industry standard by the end of the program.
And this type of methodology, coming from progressive education (Montessori is a spin of this) also works to become a life-long learner. In my opinion, actually way more efficient than traditional college.
Apprenticeship has this bad rep of being for blue collar jobs, I hope this will shift. So many of us in the tech industry have mostly learned on our own and on the job. I think we are the leaving proof that this type of program are extremely efficient.
I was the founder of a school training software engineers, we had an infrastructure track that got a lot of our students to land SRE positions. When asking employers for feedback about our grads, one feedback kept coming: they lack experience when it comes to troubleshooting.
So I went on a quest to simulate that infra debugging while in an academic context.
I came up with the idea of giving students broken servers. I used Docker container and would setup a simple workload and mess it up with classic issues.
Needless to say students generally did not like it :) debugging isn’t fun. But it did help a lot.
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I was looking at $1,000 Garmin watches and was really not excited at buying one.
At a school level, we would do this by having a network of mentors; industry-professional who are interested in coaching the next generation of software engineers. A lot of them would recommend students for interviews and internships. We would also have relations with companies and send resumés to them. Some companies were so eager to hire our students that they would interview any of those who wanted to apply.
Most companies don't care about what degree you have or don't have, what they care about is: 1) Do you have experience? 2) Do you have the skills?
For a profile like your partner, the hard part will be 1). Companies won't even want to offer her an interview because she has no experience, and it's not something she can get unless a company is willing to hire her. So how do you get out of this?
The solution I've seen work the best to solve this issue: her/your network. Y'all need to ask a friend/acquaintance at a company that is hiring to bypass that "do you have 2+ years exp" filter to interview her. And since it seem she has the 2) figured out, she might get the job.
I a am part of the community team. We have weekly live streams/blog posts about the topic and a Slack channel.