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Blake Thorne

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Blake Thorne is a Product Marketing Manager. Before joining Atlassian, he was the first marketing hire at two early-stage startups. He formerly worked as a journalist.


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104 years of downtime: looking through a year of Statuspage incident data

Statuspage customers logged more than 104 years of collective incidents in 2017. We’re always interested in the ripple effects of downtime, and with a few high-profile outages taking place in 2017, we wanted to see what our numbers had to say. To get a handle on this, we decided to look through our data on how many […]


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AWS status: The complete guide to monitoring status on the web’s largest cloud provider

If you’re hosting on AWS, you can expect some pretty excellent reliability and availability. If your service isn’t responding, it’s likely an issue with your own code. On the other hand, system outages do happen. They’re usually pretty minor.[cta] Sometimes, they’re not. While AWS is the largest cloud provider and boasts excellent reliability, the service […]


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44 incredible 404 error pages

Nobody wants their web visitors getting lost. But it happens. When it does, a great 404 error page can turn a bad experience into a delightful one.[cta] We’re always praising the benefits of good strategies for downtime. Another aspect of that is making sure visitors are taken care of if they land on an old […]


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Manage incident notifications with alert toggling

Letting the right people know about incidents is an easier-said-than-done kind of task. Every incident is different and some notifications simply don’t need to land in everyone’s inbox. We’ve listened to a lot of customers who like the idea of posting an incident to their status page, but not having that incident sent as notifications […]


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How and why we use coding challenges to interview developers

Hiring is one of the most time-intensive and critical things we do. [cta]This means time is precious. We can’t waste any on interviewing or hiring the wrong people. That’s why every engineering candidate we talk to goes through a set of coding challenges. We know there are different schools of thought on this (and some […]