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I was actually using Pushover before I switched to OpsGenie. I typically have my phone set to do not disturb overnight and Pushover didn't have a "critical alerts" option to punch …

I’ve been using OpsGenie’s free tier for a number of years as part of a home automation/monitoring project. Guess it’s time to shop for alternatives.

Google staffs SRE teams as either 8 in one location/TZ or two geographically distributed teams of 6 -- often some pairwise combination of U.S., Europe, and Australia to accommodate…

I have a house with 3 levels and when I moved in, 2 of those levels had analog thermostats. I'd be watching TV in the basement with the heat set to 68, go upstairs to bed, and real…

Having lived at worked in Poughkeepsie at IBM for several years found it strange to see it on HN as well. I've since moved to Massachusetts but something my wife and I really miss …

When car shopping a free months ago I learned that Kia wasn’t offering its UvoLink service in Massachusetts and I put it together pretty quickly. I was surprised though to discover…

It's good you learned that lesson about having someone else announce the server, but isn't always that simple. With things like Apache Aurora it would often announce jobs as soon a…

This brief excerpt really does not do the Manager Tools' feedback model justice. All of the background has been stripped from it in order to fit in a pithy blog post and without th…

I worked for VMware from 2007-2014 on things other than the core virtualization products. I think you’re overestimating the situation. There is a group that did have a fair number …

From the blog post announcing the FitbitOS 4.1 SDK it sounds like custom always-on clocks are in the works: https://dev.fitbit.com/blog/2019-12-19-announcing-fitbit-os-... (Disclos…

The Google SREs mentioned this in their book; the Chubby locking service had uptime that was so high that folks started to neglect making their own services resilient to Chubby fai…

This is exactly where I've found it can be helpful as well. At a prior job we created extremely large, complicated CloudFormation templates in JSON that could have been made much s…

As a VMware employee from 2007 to (January) 2014 the only time I recall any fear from leadership or product teams about HyperV was in 2008 or so when it was about to come out and t…