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Rootly
Company blog · rootly.com/blog · on HN as jjtang1systemsai
Rootly is the company blog at rootly.com, writing about systems and ai. Since 2021, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 81 times, most often “Re-thinking candidate take-homes in the AI Era: transcripts over code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
The all-in-one AI incident management platform for fast-moving engineering teams to detect, manage, resolve, and learn from incidents faster.
Most-linked posts?
- Re-thinking candidate take-homes in the AI Era: transcripts over code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-24
- /careers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-04
- /landing/pagerduty-vs-rootly-on-call2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-06
- SRE vs. Platform Engineering – Differences Explained2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-30
- Stress Affects Our Learning Abilities in Incidents (and What to Do About It)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-06
- What Doom taught us about AI-assisted incident response2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-16
- Rootly New Blog Series: RescueOps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-15
What Hacker News says?
Rootly.com | Engineering, Marketing | HYBRID, REMOTE (NA,EU) | Toronto, London, SF AI-powered on-call and incident response. Beautiful, modern, and Slack-native incident management—from your first alert to retrospective. Trusted by 100s of leading companies, including NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Grammarly, Elastic, Tripadvisor, and Figma. * Engineering Manager https://rootly.com/careers?4548382007?gh_jid=4548382007…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted Enterprise Incident Management: Best Practices for Large Organizations as a story · 15 points
HN discussionRootly | AI-native on-call & incident response (Slack/Teams) | Remote (US/Canada/Europe) We help engineering teams resolve incidents faster—from first alert to retrospective—used by 1000+ customers like NVIDIA, Glean, Mistral, Figma, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Replit, Grammarly, Cisco and many more. Hiring * Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Rails) * Senior Site Reliability Engineer * Security Engineer * QA Engineer * Senio…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted AI SRE Needs More Than AI: It Needs Operational Context as a story · 10 points
HN discussionRootly | https://rootly.com/ | design, engineering, GTM, sales | SF Bay, Toronto, APAC, Remote On-call, incident response, and AI SRE. Trusted by leading companies like NVIDIA, Dropbox, Canva, Figma, and more. Hiring across marketing, engineering, product, GTM, and sales https://rootly.com/careers
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)”Submitted Rootly New Blog Series: RescueOps as a story · 10 points
HN discussionRootly | https://rootly.com/ | design, engineering, GTM, sales | SF Bay, Toronto, APAC Rootly is an AI-native on-call and incident response. Modern Slack and MS Teams native incident management—from your first alert to retrospective. Trusted by 100s of leading companies including NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Grammarly, Elastic, Tripadvisor, and Figma. Hiring across design, engineering, GTM, and sales https://rootly.c…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)”Submitted Stress Affects Our Learning Abilities in Incidents (and What to Do About It) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionFor all things SRE and incident management: https://rootly.com/blog
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on “Good CI/CD and SRE Blogs”Submitted Llama 4 underperforms: a benchmark against coding-centric models as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor anyone that is interested, my team at Rootly ( https://rootly.com/ ) built an incident management platform that has been greatly inspired by the folks at Stripe!
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on “Operating well – what I learned at Stripe”Submitted Google SREs are changing the game again: a breakdown of their new approach as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor anyone that is interested, my team at Rootly ( https://rootly.com/ ) built an incident management platform that has been greatly inspired by the folks at Stripe!
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on “Operating well – what I learned at Stripe”Submitted Tips If You’re the First SRE Hire by Instacart's First SRE as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis looks great and cool to see more innovation in the space. We've been using Rootly https://rootly.com and love it.
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on “Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud”Submitted What SREs Can Learn from the Atlassian Nightmare Outage of 2022 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThank you for the feedback. Actually we did offer a free plan for up to 5 users and even 10 at one point. What we've found is the collaboration overhead during incidents at companies at that scale wasn't too useful and pivoted away. Instead we offer a 14-day trial so customers can get their feet wet without contacting us: https://rootly.com/users/sign_up .
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on “Launch HN: Rootly (YC S21) – Manage Incidents in Slack”Submitted SRE vs. Platform Engineering – Differences Explained as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTotally agree, we do offer a 14-day free trial here if you want to give it a go: https://rootly.com/users/sign_up . This feedback is helpful, I think we can make that a bit more obvious on our website!
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on “Launch HN: Rootly (YC S21) – Manage Incidents in Slack”Submitted The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGreat question. Incident.io is likely our closest competitor and are doing amazing work over there. They have a strong team and smart founders that have been in the trenches before. From a product perspective they are my favourite of our competitors if I had to pick one myself to use. Our differences are largely driven by the customer segment we serve and the needs of SMB vs. enterprise. We've found by going upmarke…
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on “Launch HN: Rootly (YC S21) – Manage Incidents in Slack”Submitted Building an incident management company by ex-Instacart as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey there, this page: https://rootly.com/humans-of-reliability Is weirdly broken (at least for me) on Safari on desktop. Every mouse movement or key click causes all the tiles to enlarge. It's fine on Chrome and Firefox.
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on “Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie”Submitted Gemini 3 beaks OpenAI's long-standing lead in SRE tasks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeconding this and offering an honest testimonial as a huge fan of JJ and Rootly’s team. I championed and led the introduction of Rootly’s incident management product at two tech companies and counting. Rootly scales well - the Slack bot replaced chains of comms we used to have humans to handle. It’s reliable. And the attention to detail in their product feels like a love letter to SRE. Rootly has the product chops…
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on “Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie”Submitted Distilled DeepSeek R1 Outperforms Llama 3 and GPT-4o in Classifying Error Logs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReading the comparison with PD [1] and having been a Pagerduty customer...even if it's promo material for a competitor, it resonates a LOT with my experience with PD (and boy, I do have experience with it). The web UI and the limitations around overrides, paging groups, escalation policies etc are all real and makes me wonder: how is it possible that a behemoth in the space like PD is stagnating like that? I underst…
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on “Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie”Submitted How Stress Affects Our Learning Abilities in Incidents (and What to Do About It) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAh yes. Terraform is super popular for us (almost 1m downloads). We also built a pretty cool "Terraformer" tool that lets you create workflows in UI and translate that to .tf easily. We take extensibility pretty seriously. Outside the basics, we just released our own agent ready API ( https://rootly.com/blog/introducing-rootlys-api-ai-agent-fir... ), MCP, docs are now LLM ready ( https://docs.rootly.com/llms-full.tx…
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on “Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie”Submitted Rootly AI as a story · 2 points
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