Birth of the Angry Bear Ringtone
Do Poke the Bear Did you know ringtones in the PagerDuty mobile app are one of the most-requested features customers contact us about? And have…
Postmortems vs. Retrospectives: When (and How) to Use Each Effectively
When we announced the launch of our Retrospectives Guide, we wrote about the value of scaling the continuous improvement mindset to beyond Product Development at…
Smart SLO Alerting With Wavefront
SLOs Just Became Important Back in the good old days of monolithic applications, most developers and application owners relied on tribal knowledge for what performance…
The State of Unplanned Work: Key Findings
It’s a new world order: Skynet has taken over. Just kidding. But it sometimes feels that way, doesn’t it? In the words of Marc Andreessen,…
RetroDuty: How We Scale Continuous Improvement Beyond Engineering at PagerDuty
This piece is co-authored by Roma Shah, Manager, Agile Leadership Team, PagerDuty. If you’ve worked on a team that has adopted Agile techniques, you’ve probably…
Rise of the Digital Operations Ecosystem
Many organizations today are dealing with a lot of complexity and disconnected tools. Teams and departments are running in parallel but siloed from each other….
It Came From Below
Kelsey Shannahan is a Senior Developer at a leading healthcare IT company in Columbus, Ohio. She is passionate about Elixir, her three cats, and Eldritch…
Achieve Better Accountability With Full-Service Ownership
Software teams seeking to provide better products and services must focus on faster release cycles. But running reliable systems at ever-increasing speeds presents a big…
Blameless Culture Key to Addressing Outage Outrage in Australia
After the unfortunate Commonwealth Bank of Australia outage last week, the powerful Payment Systems Board—whose members include the chairs of the RBA and APRA –…
Service Monitoring and You
The author would like to point out that this blog was definitely not delayed multiple times by fellow contributors, Dave Bresci and Arup Chakrabarti. Monitoring…
Happy National Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
October is the month of spooky scares, so it makes sense that National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is also recognized at this time—after all, what’s more…
Modernizing Your Digital Operations with Sumo Logic and PagerDuty
As digital transformation continues to be central to an organization’s growth mandate, it’s critical to ensure that customer-facing, revenue-generating, mission-critical applications are operationally reliable and…
Making the Most of PagerDuty + Datadog
For your team to effectively respond to incidents, you need a shared, unambiguous incident definition so you can recognize when an incident has occurred and…
Launching the PagerDuty.org Fund to Connect Remote Communities to Essential Medical Care
When it comes to impacting lives—around the world and in our own communities—it’s often about empowering the right group of people to take action when…
Where Engineering Lessons Fall Short: Overcoming Misconceptions Through Real-World Experience
As an Agile Coach at PagerDuty, I facilitate the majority of my development team’s core agile ceremonies. One of my main responsibilities is to challenge…
Walking the “Green” Carpet: The Summit19 Customer Awards
Last week during Summit, our annual conference, our co-founder and CTO Alex Solomon announced the 2019 PagerDuty Summit Award winners. These awards honor our best…
Summit Day Two: New Integrations and Developer Platform to Bring Real-Time Work to More People
Yesterday, we kicked off PagerDuty Summit by launching new features that support the themes of Visibility and Intelligence. If you missed the keynotes or want…
Summit Day One: Delivering New Machine Learning Capabilities to Cut Costs and Outages
At PagerDuty, we continually innovate every month (check out our What’s New page for the latest updates). But while we ship product continuously, we also…
