Oncall and COVID-19 Survey Results

Note: This survey was conducted before the recent protests in the US that…

Announcing Our Series A

It's Friday at about quitting time, and my plans for the evening involved a…

Deserted Island DevOps Wrapup

Deserted Island DevOps was held on April 30, 2020, in the game Animal Crossing…

Failover Conf Wrapup

Failover Conf was held on April 21, 2020, online. The folks at Gremlin came…

The Old Fashioned

If you’re having a hard time enjoying the great indoors you might find solace in…

Advice for On-call Teams During COVID-19

I’ve offered some tips up for folks who are oncall during the COVID-19 crisis…

Meet Mark Starkman, Senior Software Engineer

Hey there! I’m Mark Starkman and I joined FireHydrant last week as a Senior…

OOPS! Learning from Surprise at Netflix

Many of you are stuck at home looking for things to do, so I thought this would…

Q&A with Alex Hidalgo on SLOs

Alex Hidalgo is a Site Reliability Engineer at Squarespace, and he's currently…

Meet Rich Burroughs, Senior Developer Advocate

Hi. I’m Rich Burroughs, and I’ve just joined FireHydrant as a Senior Developer…

Announcing Ticketing

Incidents come up quickly and tracking critical tasks to be done in the moment…

Grow your blame-free culture with these postmortem best practices

Bugs will happen from time to time. As our systems grow in complexity, new…

Make the most from FireHydrant's Service Catalogs with these 4 tips

Outages are inevitable. It is how we respond that can make or break our company…

3 Ways to Help CS and Engineering Work Better Together

As Engineering teams start spending more time and effort on incident response…

Avoid Institutionalized Incident Nonsense

We do things all the time that have better alternatives without giving a single…

Severity Matrix Updates

We’re on a mission to make responding to incidents a bit less chaotic. One of…

Announcing Runbooks

Since the beginning, we've wanted to make it faster, easier, and even a joy to…

A single person on-call “rotation” is a critical vulnerability

One of the most common complaints we hear from operations and site reliability…

NFS With Docker on macOS Catalina

NFS With Docker on macOS Catalina You like living on the edge, life is fun on…

Open Source can be a silver bullet, but your application might be a werewolf

I was reminiscing about an incident that happened at a past job with an old co…

Announcing our AWS CloudTrail Integration

One of the most common reasons for system failures is changes to the underlying…

Graceful Error Handling with Redux

Redux powers our global state at FireHydrant, one of the things we use most…

Dynamic Kubernetes Informers

In the past I’ve written about how to use informers in Kubernetes for particular…

Announcing our Statuspage.io integration

Ever go to a status page and it says everything is operational when it…

3 Defensive Programming Techniques for Rails

Incidents happen all the time because of bad code deploys. You write some code…

A Gophers Guide to San Diego

The FireHydrant team is dominantly from San Diego, 3 of our 4 person team…

Announcing Flare: Make opening incidents stress free

We’re launching a new feature today that allows anyone in your organization to…

So You Want To Give A Tech Talk?

So you’ve signed up to give a tech talk, awesome! You’re a subject matter expert…

Monitorama 2019 Recap

Talk Recaps John Allspaw Taking Human Performance Seriously In Software The…

Rails without Webpacker

We recently removed webpacker from our Rails 5 application. While it was a great…

SLO, SLA, SLI Oh My! Creating them can be easy

Imagine you are driving a car on a freeway. Your speedometer is telling you you…

Marketing Site Outage

Earlier today, we experienced an outage of our marketing site for 18 minutes. No…

Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with Prometheus

If you’re running a production application, you need metrics. There are great…

Flexible Ruby on Rails Reader Objects

Rails and ActiveRecord are great at providing a simple interface for retrieving…

Stay Informed with Kubernetes Informers

FireHydrant.io has a changelog feature with a Kubernetes integration. Building…

Understanding Istio Ingress

Istio is a hot technology right now. Giants such as Google and IBM have devoted…

Developing a Ruby on Rails app with Docker Compose

Docker Compose is a great tool to develop your Ruby on Rails application locally…

Developer a Go app with Docker Compose

Writing Go applications in an isolated environment with Docker comes with some…

How FireHydrant Creates Data in Rails

At FireHydrant, we built a platform for integrations from the beginning. This…

Using React Select with Redux Form

At FireHydrant we use Redux Form for all of our forms. It is extremely easy to…

New Feature: Incident Status Pages

Today we're happy to release our incident status page feature! If you operate…

Announcing FireHydrant, a tool to manage incidents

The Short Version Today we’re publicly launching registration to FireHydrant…