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Many are likely familiar with the “American tourist” stereotype, where Americans visit different countries around the world, yet insist on imposing American culture on everyone,…
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One of the core pieces of PagerDuty is sending users incident notifications. But not just any notifications—they need to be the right notifications at the…
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This piece is co-authored by: Derek Ralston, Agile Coach, and Charlotte Sarfati, Technical Support Engineer. Charlotte and Derek worked together on PagerDuty’s cross-functional HackWeek committee….
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Health checks are vital for maintaining resiliency and ensuring continuous operations of any system. In an ideal world, health checks should be able to detect…
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At PagerDuty, taking the lead is a key value, and we are always looking for opportunities to cultivate leadership within our engineering group. One of…
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In a world of highly complex systems, it isn’t uncommon to use different data storage technologies and mechanisms for different purposes, as each technology has…
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This post is written for engineering leaders who are responsible for building on and maintaining their company’s engineering career track. It’s meant to provide a…
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Upward Farms’ mission is to radically elevate the world’s fresh food supply by setting new standards for safety, quality, and cost. The company operates complete…
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As an Agile Coach at PagerDuty, one aspect of my job is to help teams refresh their processes when they’re no longer working for them….
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In a story that will sound all too familiar to many developers, in early 2019, I picked up a Kanban ticket to update a legacy…
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ETS will hold references to large binaries, even if just part of the original binary is stored in a table. Copy binaries if pieces of…
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At PagerDuty, we’ve been doing Kanban for a while now, and as an Engineering Manager who has managed several teams over my tenure, I wanted…
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Using inets and httpd to create a simple HTTP server without adding external dependencies Recently I needed to add a healthcheck endpoint to an application…
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Some people inherit treasured jewelry, lavish mansions, or even grand fortunes. Software engineers inherit legacy code, written by people no longer working at the company,…
I’m proud to be working for an Engineering organization that feels safe. Safe for its engineers to bring their authentic selves to work and discuss…
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Android has matured as a platform significantly since its release ten years ago. ~Google~ The community has developed best practices and continued to refine them…
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The software engineering world is moving quickly; libraries and frameworks are always changing. This is especially true on Android where Google only recently solidified its…
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When PagerDuty was founded, development speed was of the essence—so it should be no surprise when we reveal that Rails was the initial sole bit…