Tony Albanese
Posts by Tony Albanese
DIY Arduino YUN Integration for PagerDuty Alerts
Using a little code inspiration from the Gmail Lamp, Daniel Gentleman of Thoughtfix (@Thoughtfix) built an awesome PagerDuty Arduino integration by ...
Finding a Scalable Way to Stop Attackers
Evan Gilman, operations engineer at PagerDuty, recently spoke at a meetup at PagerDuty HQ. The first thing Evan noted, “Security is hard.” ...
Meetup: Keeping Customer Data Safe
This Friday, July 11th at 12:00 PM we’re hosting our second Meetup at PagerDuty HQ. Swing by, grab a slice of pizza, a cup of...
10 Common Ops Mistakes
Updated 7/24/2014: This blog post was updated to more accurately reflect Arup’s talk. Arup Chakrabarti, PagerDuty’s operations engineer ...
Saving the Rainforest One Alert at a Time
Update 6/25/2014: Rainforest Connection recently launched a crowd funding campaign. Every year ten of thousands of square miles of forests are being ...
ReferralDuty | Tell Your Friends About PagerDuty, Get Stuff
Do you know someone who could benefit from PagerDuty? Sure, you could tell all of your friends about us, but why do it unless you...
Outage Post Mortem – April 14th, 2014
On April 14th, PagerDuty suffered an outage that affected customers on both the mobile and web applications. During the period of the outage, ...
Keep Your Website Available with the Right Monitoring Practices
In its simplest form, website monitoring is the process of testing and verifying that end-users can can actually use your service. There are several ...
How Our Customers Scale On-Call with PagerDuty
“With PagerDuty we have be able to consolidate our alert stream” – Chris Peters, Operations Lead at Expensify “I can’t imagine life ...
Foundations of a Successful DevOps Team
This is the final post of our series about transitioning to a DevOps culture (for now). To start from the beginning check out, Why You...
Scaling & Eliminating Waste in Your DevOps Environment
This is the third post in a series to help your engineering team transition into a DevOps organizational model. Here we’ll discuss how to scale...
Breaking Down Silos Doesn’t Happen Overnight
This is the second post in a series to help your engineering team transition into a DevOps organizational model. Here we’ll discuss how to start...
Why You Need to Establish a DevOps Culture
This is the first post in a series to help your engineering team transition into a DevOps model. We’ll start with the whys and get to...
10 Common Server Monitoring Mistakes from the Trenches
This is a guest blog post from Shawn Parrish of NodePing, one of our monitoring partners, about how to avoid some of the more common monitoring...
Tips for Tackling System Issues with PC Monitor and PagerDuty
This is a guest blog post from PC Monitor, one of our monitoring partners, about how to best use their system and PagerDuty together to...
Rethink. Become a Modern NOC.
It’s easy to feel underutilized as an engineer working in a NOC. Especially in a larger organizations you may find yourself silod into owning highly...