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Beaver Duty

Alert fatigue solved (temporarily)

We refactored notifications. The system went quiet. Too quiet.

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Matt
Sep 05, 2025
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After a few weeks of hard work and intense refactoring, the team has offered everyone two weeks to prioritise well-being and combat burnout.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t on purpose. And we found out the hard way.

After three years of cherry-picking, force pushes, and duplicated functions, our shared module of functions used across all the teams looked as mess…

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