Andreas Fuchs helped build Stripe’s incident response tool, a service nicknamed the “Big Red Button” BRB was designed to create a dedicated Slack channel for each incident using a very particular naming convention. BRB generated a name by randomly picking and combining two commonly used English words.

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Genesis of Stripe’s incident response toolEarning adoption for the “Big Red Button”Expanding BRB to the full incident lifecycleImportant organizational support for incident responseTechnical design decisions when building your own service

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