Archive - The Thought Drop

Three new on-call providers emerge in a week. What gives?

There's something in the water.

Mar 8 •

September 2023

The alerting tool ecosystem is so far behind it hurts – and I want to fix it.

"Why hasn't PagerDuty done this?" The first few years of FireHydrant were a constant barrage of this question. Investors, friends, and prospective…

Sep 20, 2023 •

March 2023

Your codebase is a Jenga tower

Play your blocks wisely.

Mar 6, 2023 •

February 2023

Incident travel time

The real investment is how fast you get there

Feb 15, 2023 •

July 2022

It has been 10 years since you died. Your heart attack and stroke combined made it impossible for you to continue living. Late on the evening December…

Jul 17, 2022 •

January 2022

Farewell Bobby.

Jan 24, 2022 •

From Engineer to CEO - Year Three

Three lessons learned over the last year as I've transitioned from a software engineer to a CEO.

Jan 20, 2022 •

March 2021

It's time for standardized labels

We will hate ourselves if we don't do this soon

Mar 6, 2021 •

December 2020

Software and startups

Welcome to The Thought Drop by me, Robert Ross. Software engineer. Co-founder and CEO of www.firehydrant.io Sign up now so you don’t miss the first…

Dec 16, 2020 •

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