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FireHydrant
Company blog · firehydrant.io/blogsystemsbusiness
FireHydrant is the company blog at firehydrant.io, writing about systems and business. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “A single person on-call “rotation” is a critical vulnerability”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments are only 'Who is hiring' job listings for FireHydrant, an incident response platform, linking its careers page. None discuss the company's blog writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
All-in-one incident management software for modern teams. FireHydrant helps you plan, respond, and resolve faster with smart alerting, on-call scheduling, AI-powered workflows, and post-incident retros.
Most-linked posts?
- A single person on-call “rotation” is a critical vulnerability2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-09
- Reliability is not an engineering metric2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-30
- 2021 Is the Year of Reliability2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-20
- Avoid Institutionalized Incident Nonsense2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-12
- Incident Severity and Priority 1012 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-25
What Hacker News says?
FireHydrant | Multiple Roles | Full-Time | Remote [US] | https://firehydrant.io/careers FireHydrant helps companies recover from IT disasters more quickly. The FireHydrant platform includes Incident Response, Status Pages, Retrospectives, and Deploy Events so you can take control of your complex system, reduce downtime, and work better together. We’re a Series A company with around 35 employees who sit across the Un…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted Show HN: FireHydrant – A simple incident response tool as a story · 53 points
HN discussionFireHydrant | Multiple Roles | Full-Time | Remote [US] | https://firehydrant.io/careers FireHydrant helps companies recover from IT disasters more quickly. The FireHydrant platform includes Incident Response, Status Pages, Retrospectives, and Deploy Events so you can take control of your complex system, reduce downtime, and work better together. We're a Series A company with around 45 employees who sit across the Un…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted FireHydrant – A tool to manage incidents as a story · 34 points
HN discussionFireHydrant | Multiple Roles | Full-Time | Remote [US] | https://firehydrant.io/careers FireHydrant helps companies recover from IT disasters more quickly. The FireHydrant platform includes Incident Response, Status Pages, Retrospectives, and Deploy Events so you can take control of your complex system, reduce downtime, and work better together. We’re a Series A company with around 45 employees who sit across the Un…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)”Submitted Avoid frostbite: Stop doing code freezes as a story · 24 points
HN discussionFireHydrant | Multiple Roles | Full-Time | Remote [US] | https://firehydrant.io/careers FireHydrant helps companies recover from IT disasters more quickly. The FireHydrant platform includes Incident Response, Status Pages, Retrospectives, and Deploy Events so you can take control of your complex system, reduce downtime, and work better together. We’re a Series A company with around 35 employees who sit across the Un…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)”Submitted 2021 Is the Year of Reliability as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted So you want to give a tech talk? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Culture of the Codebase as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Service Catalog Increases Productivity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reliability is not an engineering metric as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alert Fatigue and Your Health as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build Your API First as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails Without Webpacker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incident Severity and Priority 101 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reliability is not an engineering metric as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The MTTR That Matters as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is SRE? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deserted Island DevOps Wrapup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoid Institutionalized Incident Nonsense as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Our AWS CloudTrail Integration as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Dev's Perspective: Lessons from Open Source with FireHydrant and Backstage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FireHydrant raises $23M Series B as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grow your blame-free culture with these postmortem best practices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A single person on-call “rotation” is a critical vulnerability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source can be a silver bullet, but your application might be a werewolf as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defensive Programming Techniques for Rails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Instrument Ruby on Rails with Prometheus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FireHydrant is now on Microsoft Teams as a story · 1 points
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