This chapter delves into the complexities of being on call in modern tech businesses, examining the impact of time zones and the emotional toll on teams. The speakers share personal experiences and discuss the importance of learning from incidents, managing technical debt, and fostering clear communication during crises. They also highlight the significance of careful database management and technology choices, including the use of redundancy to mitigate risks during on-call scenarios.
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Gerhard loves simple ideas executed well, which is why he is excited to be speaking today with Ildar Iskhakov & Matvey Kukuy about their startup Amixr, a.k.a. Grafana OnCall.
Ildar & Matvey started with a simple idea and a simple stack - Django, Celery, RabbitMQ & MySQL - all running on Kubernetes. Because they kept their main thing their main thing, and kept improving it every day for a couple of years, now your on-call can be simple too.
This is another Big Tent philosophy story with a Black Swan moment towards the end.
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