2021 is the Year of Reliability

There's no better time than now to dedicate effort to reliable software . Say…

A look back at 2020

What a year 2020 was, needless to say, not the best. Looking on the brighter…

4 Questions with Jeff Smith

This is the first in a series of interviews with experts about reliability…

KubeCon North America 2020 Wrapup

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual (say that five times fast…

What is CI/CD?

The Importance of a CI/CD Pipeline in Incidence Response CI/CD is a software…

More New Terraform Resources - Episode 7 of Throughput Thursdays

In this episode we create resources for managing teams and severities through…

HashiConf Digital October 2020 Wrapup

HashiConf Digital October 2020 was the second HashiConf to be held online due to…

Creating a Data Source - Episode 6 of Throughput Thursdays

In this episode we update our Terraform resource for FireHydrant functionalities…

Moving from Redux Thunk to Redux-Saga: A walk-through

At FireHydrant, we recently began to replace our usage of thunks with Sagas to…

Dastardly Disasters

Do you like spooky stories? Do you like spooky stories about incidents? If you…

Incident Ready: How to Chaos Engineer Your Incident Response Process

Don’t let a T-Rex ruin your process We’re pretty sure using a real incident to…

About Last Week: A Chaos Conf Wrap-up

Did you catch us at Chaos Conf? That’s a wrap! We had a great time at Chaos Conf…

Testing Our Terraform Resources - Episode 5 of Throughput Thursdays

If you missed last week’s episode, you can find it here. We’ll be taking a…

How to: Automatically Archive Incident Slack Channels using conditions in FireHydrant Runbooks

FireHydrant's Slack integration is a great way to speed up your incident…

Adding two Terraform resources - Episode 4 of Throughput Thursdays

Last week we were able to achieve creating two full blown Terraform resources…

How to: Email Incident Stakeholders with conditions in FireHydrant

Our release of conditions in FireHydrant Runbooks has made it easier for teams…

New release: Incident Automation just got even better with conditions in FireHydrant Runbooks

We’ve made your favorite FireHydrant feature, FireHydrant Runbooks, even more…

Fixing some code sins - Episode 3 of Throughput Thursdays

Last week we built a flexible API client for our Terraform provider that…

Are you going to Chaos Conf?

It’s almost Chaos Conf! Things are gearing up in our preparations for Chaos…

Live from Cape Cod - Throughput Thursdays Ep 2

In this stream, I’m live from Cape Cod, sitting on a dock about 4 inches from…

Build your API first

I have a beef with companies that don't expose nearly everything their product…

We’re building a Terraform Provider! - Episode 1 of Throughput Thursdays

Last week we started out the Terraform provider with a simple data resource…

7 Ways to Get Acquainted With a New Codebase

Diving into a new unfamiliar codebase can be daunting. When I joined…

DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 Wrapup

DevOpsDays Chicago 2020  was held on September 1, online. It was the first time…

How FireHydrant's CI/CD infrastructure fixes bugs faster

Almost everyone knows that working with third-party APIs can be challenging…

KubeCon Europe 2020 Wrapup

Day One - Tuesday KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Virtual happened online…

New Integration: Create Zoom incident bridges automatically

Incident response doesn’t only happen in Slack, so today we’re happy to announce…

Meet Tori Fluharty, Software Engineer

Hey y'all! I'm Tori Fluharty, and I recently joined FireHydrant as a Software…

What is SRE?

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a practice for managing the reliability of…

Incident Page Updates

Here at FireHydrant we are always looking for ways to improve and simplify…

PagerDuty Integration Updates

Turn PagerDuty alerts into FireHydrant incidents in one click In an effort to…

Announcing Status Pages

Communication is one of the hardest things to do well while responding to…

HashiConf Digital Wrapup, June 2020

The first HashiConf Digital event was held on June 22-24, online. The event was…

The Culture of the Codebase

One of the earliest bits of code in Laddertruck, the Ruby on Rails app that…

LaunchDarkly Improves Incident Response with FireHydrant

Headquartered in Oakland, California, LaunchDarkly is a feature management…

Sticking to Your SLAs with FireHydrant Runbooks

In today’s world, systems are increasingly becoming more and more complex. Due…

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…

Developer a Go app with Docker Compose

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

Developing a Ruby on Rails app with Docker Compose

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

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…