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Organize Your Monitoring With Tags and Filtering

If you’re responsible for keeping tabs on multiple domains, finding what you need when you need it is often half the battle. Want to access checks quickly and easily? Create custom tags for filtering checks in your Dashboard. You will get the info you need without having to look through unrelated information about other sites. Not sure how to organize your checks?

PagerDuty API Introduction

Learn how easy it is to get up and running with the PagerDuty API in just a few minutes. Harness automation in your incident response and digital operations by leveraging PagerDuty’s REST based API. This video covers basic concepts regarding APIs, REST and JSON. You will also be introduced to PagerDuty’s industry leading interactive API documentation that will automatically provide executable API code at your fingertips.

Observability-Driven Development

TDD is table stakes for any good team, but it’s not enough: these days you need ODD: Observability-Driven Development (and Design). Observability should be baked into every step of your software development process, from conception to maintenance period. No pull request should ever be accepted without being able to answer the question, "how will you know if this works?".

Payload Size and Max PPS on AWS EC2 - No Effect

While benchmarking packets per second (PPS) in AWS EC2 and searching for hard-coded or other software-based limitations, my early findings suggested that there definitely was a credit mechanism, complete with network throttling, in place. I now know that to be false, since finding the guaranteed throughput / best effort mechanic.

4 ways to build strong, diverse teams in the tech industry

I’ve been on a lot of teams in my journey from a software engineer to head of product for Confluence Cloud. All of the best ones have had one thing in common: they were comprised of people from different walks of life who could view the world from different perspectives. So naturally when I started hiring my own teams, I knew promoting diversity at the workplace would be a priority for me.