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Volunteers, Not Conscripts: Fixing Out-Of-Hours On-Call at Intercom

Uptime matters. At Intercom, we believe that keeping our product online and working well at all times is critical to the success of our business. Out-of-hours on-call is inherently disruptive to your life as an engineer. You need to be ready to respond quickly and competently to an alert about something being broken.

Three Keys to Incident Response: On-Call Schedules, Escalation Policies, and Routing Rules

Organizations are drowning in alerts, incidents, and chaos that prevent them from doing their jobs and serving their customers. Notably, for businesses who operate always-on services, an outage or downtime can be devastating to their bottom line, not to mention a poor experience for their customers and users.

6 Reasons to Think of Pager Replacement Options

Antiquated pieces of technology create setbacks in every industry, and in healthcare – it’s the pager! Pagers are still being used even though they’re not HIPAA compliant and the infrastructure supporting them is dying out. That’s why doctors and healthcare personnel alike need an advanced way to communicate and protect patient information. Here are six reasons to think of pager replacement options.

7 Tips to Get New Engineers Ready to Be On-Call

Before the philosophy of DevOps, developers would build products, services, and infrastructures , but the responsibility for maintaining them would shift to operators, aka system or IT admins. The DevOps philosophy removes the boundary between Operations and Development teams, making system reliability a shared responsibility of all parties.