LUlukesingham·Sep 9, 2025Submission
Dispatch – Netflix's incident management system was archived last week
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dispatch
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dispatch
All of the ad-hoc things you're doing to manage incidents today, done for you, and much more!
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All of the ad-hoc things you're doing to manage incidents today, done for you, and much more!
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 sourcesI will just share a somewhat similar project: https://github.com/netflix/dispatch
Also open source, also Python, also incident management, also custom severities (but not as much of custom roles, afaik) :) Has some integrations with slack, but not focused on Slack particularly.
Can be a good project to learn from as well :)
My relation to it: I only contributed with a couple of pull requests there :)
In Show HN: I am building an open-source incident management platformThe open source option from Netflix is quite popular too: https://github.com/Netflix/dispatch
In Launch HN: Rootly (YC S21) – Manage Incidents in SlackThis is very good! It's the most comprehensive guide of how to organize a large FastAPI project I've seen. Which is important, because FastAPI is unopinonated, so there's onboarding cost to getting a team on the same page-- strong opinions help alleviate that!
It's more Rails-like then Django/Flask-like. Meaning, top-level organization by "M"/"V"/"C" as opposed to by "Blueprint." I mean, "models/blog.py" as opposed to "blog/models.py".
Netflix Dispatch is an example project that organizes in the more Flask-Blueprint-like way (https://github.com/Netflix/dispatch/tree/master/src/dispatch).
I'm going to pour over this a bit longer, but that will take some time! So I wanted to leave some initial thoughts to people discovering this.
In Implementing FastAPI Services – Abstraction and Separation of Concerns