The Debrief by incident.io

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The Debrief by incident.io

In The Debrief, you'll hear conversations with engineers, product managers and founders about the ins and outs of incident response. Whether you're looking for actionable advice from folks who have been there or relatable stories, you'll find it on the Debrief.

  1. 25 JUL

    Debriefing on the Crowdstrike incident

    In this episode, hosts Norberto and Lawrence discuss the recent CrowdStrike incident that began on July 19th. You won't find any backseat commentary on the technical specifics, but instead a deep dive into the things we care about incident.io, like communication, their over response and proactive problem-solving during crises.

    38 min

  2. 15 JUL

    Short-lived teams, sweating the details and zero bugs: How Linear raises the bar

    This week, we're talking to Sabin Roman, engineering manager at Linear, to talk about processes that sit behind building their product. We cover how they build teams around planned work, how their "goalie" role works to protect teams from unplanned work, the zero bugs policy they've introduced and how they ensure everyone at Linear sweats the details on their product.

    46 min

  3. 28 JUN

    Behind the streams: How Netflix uses incident.io to drive reliability across their organization

    This week we sit down with Hank Jacobs, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Netflix to discuss their deployment of incident.io across their organization. Among other things, we discuss how great UX has allowed them to roll out to hundreds of teams in months, how they have more entries in their Catalog than any other incident.io customer, and how their partnership with incident.io has been an overall game changer.

    37 min

  4. 3 JUN

    Scaling into the unknown: growing your company when there's no clear roadmap ahead

    During a recent episode of The Debrief, we spoke with Jeff Forde, Architect on the Platform Engineering team at Collectors, about building an incident management program at various stages of growth.  In that episode, we called it growth from zero to one, one to two, and two to three.  But what happens once you’ve scaled beyond three and answers to question you may have become that much harder to find.  To get to the bottom of this, we chatted with Oliver Tappin, Director of SRE at Eagle Eye, about what to do once your company has reached a point where there’s no precedent or roadmap, and you can’t necessarily look to others for answers.

    41 min

  5. 28 MAY

    Why you shouldn't take a cookie-cutter approach to incident management with Toby Jackson of Future

    This week, we have a really fun conversation lined up. For this episode, we chatted with Toby Jackson, Global SRE Team Lead at Future, about why it’s a bad idea to take a cookie-cutter approach to incident management or, put another way, why it’s not a good idea to treat all incidents alike. In our conversation, we discuss what’s wrong with this approach, some situations where this might actually make sense, how psychological safety factors into this conversation, and a whole lot more.

    48 min

  6. 20 MAY

    Why speed of iteration made buying incident.io the right choice with John Paris of Skyscanner

    This week, we're sharing an extra special episode. It's no secret that the decision to buy or build isn't exactly a straightforward one. And the decision you make can be influenced by a ton of factors. But the fact is that in some instances, buying can make more sense than building, and in others, building can make more sense than buying. In this episode, you'll hear from John Paris, Principal Engineer at Skyscanner, to get the story behind their build versus buy journey. Joining him as the host for this episode is none other than the CPO of incident.io, Chris Evans. In their conversation, Chris and John discuss Skyscanner's setup before adopting incident.io, what life has been like after adopting the platform, and a whole lot more.

    17 min

  7. 13 MAY

    Building AI features? Don't forget your product principles

    It’s fair to say that AI is here to stay.  So, as companies grapple with this reality, they’re putting their best foot forward to build AI features that really make a difference for their customers. But should you be building these features if there’s no obvious fit in your product? And even if there is, are you making sure to stay true to your product principles?  The reality is that deciding to build AI into your product isn’t a decision you make on a whim. There are tons of considerations around how to do it right—many of which we wrestled with ourselves when we were building our AI features just a few months ago.  So, in this episode of The Debrief, we sat down with our CTO, Pete Hamilton, and Product Manager, Ed Dean, to get some perspective on how we weighed the decision to build with AI and how we thought about principles along the way.

    38 min

  8. 6 MAY

    Using clinical troubleshooting to diagnose incidents faster with SRE Dan Slimmon

    It’s no secret that teamwork is one of those things that, when done right, can make a world of a difference.  So sometimes, when responding to a particularly complicated incident, it can be best to bring a team together to figure out what’s going on and work towards a fix.  But it’s not enough to just jam a bunch of folks into a room and hope for the best. You need a framework in place to ensure that everyone stays focused, diagnoses the issue and resolves it as quickly as possible.  And for SRE, Dan Slimmon, clinical troubleshooting is just the framework to help with this.  In this episode, we chat with Dan about this approach to collaboration and why, he thinks, it can help teams resolve issues much faster.  In our conversation we discuss what the benefits of clinical troubleshooting are, why teams get tripped up on collaboration in the first place, what firefighting and incident response have in common and a lot more.

    40 min
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In The Debrief, you'll hear conversations with engineers, product managers and founders about the ins and outs of incident response. Whether you're looking for actionable advice from folks who have been there or relatable stories, you'll find it on the Debrief.

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