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Why We Built DevBar

It was 2 AM during a production incident. A payment service was returning 503s. I had PagerDuty open in one tab, the relevant GitHub PR in another, a Datadog dashboard in a third, Linear for the …

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Building Real-Time Alerts Without Polling

The first version of DevBar polled every integration on a 60-second interval. It worked, but 60 seconds is an eternity during a production incident. By the time the menu bar updated to show a new …

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