-
-
Follow
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Categories
Archives
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- October 2010
- August 2010
- June 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- November 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
Category Archives: Blog
Over the past few years, PagerDuty has alerted thousands of users, letting them know when their systems are down. It’s what we do, and we’re proud to be seen as an integral part of their monitoring solution. Every once in … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Blog, Customer
Tagged Instant Messaging, NOC, Ops Support, Outsourcing IT
Leave a comment
Oct 30 12
Trading up Your Engine: How to Move Your IOPS-heavy MySQL/Rails Stack to Unicode Without Downtime
You’re a techie working for one of the multitude of startups that rushed to market, where the founders hastily glued a Rails app together with candy-bar wrappers and tinfoil. Once it became obvious that enthusiasm was no substitute for raw coding power, developers … Continue reading
TL;DR; We brought our deploy time down from 10 minutes to 50 seconds. When I joined PagerDuty over a year ago, our application consisted of essentially a single Rails site. We’ve changed the architecture of our system since then to … Continue reading
Hiring software engineers is hard. We all know this. If you get past the problem of sourcing and landing good candidates (which is hard in itself), the whole issue of “is this person I’m talking to ‘good enough’ to actually … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Blog
Tagged hiring, Hiring Best Practices, Hiring Developers, Hiring Engineers, Jobs at PagerDuty, john, machine learning
Leave a comment
TL;DR: We are attending and sponsoring the 2012 Splunk Worldwide User Conference, which runs from September 10 through the 13th in Las Vegas at the Cosmopolitan hotel. Come by our booth to learn about our brand new integration with Splunk, grab … Continue reading
Jun 23 11
Velocity Contest Winners
Velocity 2011 was a blast! Thanks to everyone who came by our booth to find more about PagerDuty, snag a t-shirt, and enter our contest. Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Blog, Community
Leave a comment
PagerDuty presented at Under The Radar yesterday and won both Best In Show’s Audience Choice Award and Developer Tools’ Audience Choice Award. If you missed the presentation, both the video and slides are embedded after the jump. Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Blog
Leave a comment
Today, at around 1am Pacific Time, Amazon began having major problems with some of their cloud infrastructure: specifically with their EC2, EBS, and RDS offerings. We’d like to share some statistics on the alerts we sent out – via phone or SMS – during the outage. Continue reading
Introducing Curated Arial Non-Orbital Navigation System or CANON. Continue reading
Posted in Blog
4 Comments
Aug 31 10
Load Balancers need static IPs!
We’ve been hosting PagerDuty on AWS for about the last year. One of the biggest draws to the platform for us was the promise of ready-built components — on AWS there’s no need to run your own redundant DB setup or load balancer, … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
9 Comments
