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Late last year, we had an interesting problem occur with the Kafka clusters in our staging environment. Random hosts across several clusters started experiencing events…
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Mitra Goswami (PagerDuty Senior Director Data Science) is a machine learning professional with experience working in Astrophysics, Media, Martech, and the Financial Services Industry. Her…
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I’ve had the privilege to be with PagerDuty since 2016, and in that time, I’ve seen a lot of change. I’ve seen the company evolve…
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Liran Haimovitch is the co-founder and CTO of Rookout, a modern software debugging platform. Back in my early days at Rookout, I had the privilege…
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I’ve built and taught others about building systems of many kinds—as a mathematician and teacher, and more recently as a security engineer in the last…
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In video game parlance, a side quest is a little diversion that you do while ignoring that you should actually be saving the world. In…
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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…
| In Engineering
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…