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Webook honors lisy1/7/2024 ![]() We initiated post-mortems for the first and second outage, where we shared our investigations into the service outages and reflected on what went well, what went wrong, where we got lucky, and what corrective actions to take. Rethinking how our core architecture works and having help tackling initiatives to ensure the reliability of our service were the first steps. We take the reliability of our service extremely seriously, and for these outages to happen was a wake up call that there are fundamental changes we need to make in order for us to avoid these scenarios. No engineer was on call to adjust our number of workers which turned a minor problem into a much bigger one than it should have been. The first outage was caused by the deployment in production of a PG Bouncer upgrade and the second came down to human involvement. November was the first time we suffered from an outage that caused a delay in the service. Each addition to the team brought their own strengths, and we are planning on growing our team even more in the New Year. She’s the stalwart overlooking the quality of our content and making sure the message is spread on social media. Also on the team is Ella Chiha, a creative writer-turned-editor who has also added LinkedIn and Twitter to her Hookdeck role. There’s Val, a “backend engineer” for work purposes but also a man with many passions (photography, blogging, rock-climbing, the list goes on!) We’ve also been collaborating with Fikayo Adepoju, a tech lead with great passion for writing who’s been focused on creating resources to spread knowledge on webhooks. Since then we’ve been adding to the team. He was our advisor who was so involved that at some point he shared with us he’d like an operating role to become more hands-on in helping Alex and I build out Hookdeck. We also collaborated with Alex Gamburg, a talented marketer who helped us articulate Hookdeck’s position in the market.Īfter that, we hired Maurice. ![]() In March 2021 we started to work with Shawn Parent, a seasoned developer who was able to help us build Hookdeck. We were able to cross paths with people all over, and have worked with many amazing individuals. I don't think hiring is an easy task, nor will it ever be, but something that played in our favor is the fact that we are a distributed company. It wasn’t easy to hire our first team member. We began the year as two co-founders, but after receiving a bit of breathing room from the investment, we tackled the crucial task of growing the team.
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