From 0 to Production in 48 Hours: Architecting SmartPager

There’s a famous saying in engineering: "Fast, Cheap, or Reliable. Pick two." But when you enter a 48-hour hackathon to build a distributed incident management system, you are forced to pick all three. This is the story of how my team and I built SmartPager from scratch, moving from a blank IDE to a production-grade alerting system in a single weekend. The Problem with Incident Management Incident management isn't just about sending an email when a server goes down. It's about concu...