Category Archives: Blog

How Cascadeo Integrates PagerDuty Into Its NOC, Instant Messaging and Ops Support Platform

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

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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

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Growing a Rails Application: How We Made Deploy Fast Again

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

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Approaching the Hiring of Engineers as a Machine Learning Problem

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

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PagerDuty Sponsoring Splunk’s 3rd Annual Worldwide User Conference

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

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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

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PagerDuty Wins Best In Show Audience Choice Award At Under The Radar [Video]

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

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Standing on the shoulders of giants and stumbling with them – the Amazon AWS outage’s “pain” statistics

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

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Pivoting – Fixing The Public Transportation System

Introducing Curated Arial Non-Orbital Navigation System or CANON. Continue reading

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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

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