April 30, 2020 Austin Parker, Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep and co-host of On-Call Me Maybe, hosted a one-of-a-kind DevOps conference. With the cancellation of events all over the world in the face of COVID-19, virtual conferences have been blooming (see our coverage of Failover Conf here), but Deserted Island DevOps was the first ever conference held in the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

There’s no question that subscription-based businesses are an incredibly popular revenue model in today’s economy. While single transaction revenue models tend to fluctuate due to the seasonality of markets, subscription plans offer much more consistent and predictable revenues. Although the subscription revenue model can certainly be advantageous over one-off transactions, these businesses are also notoriously challenging to keep subscribers active on their plan.

Leverage Multiple Alert Sources in Squadcast to reflect your actual system infrastructure on your Service Dashboard Having your Incident Management Tool reflect your system architecture is a big milestone in reducing cognitive load on your on-call team. In order to help our users move one step closer to this milestone, we recently released the functionality to add multiple alert sources to a service. You can now model your service dashboard to mimic your actual system architecture.

We are really excited to announce that Christian Fröhlingsdorf joins iLert as our Chief Technology Officer. Christian brings significant experience from senior roles in large industrial companies. He has held various positions within the REWE Group and played a key role in developing and growing a large microservice-based e-commerce marketplace for online grocery retail.

Even though most of us have spent this month working from home or furloughed due to COVID-19, glitches certainly haven’t been taking a break. We’re still relying on intricate software systems to keep the world moving, and we have little ability to maintain them in person. What’s more, changing usage patterns have stressed global networks in ways that are hard to anticipate. As a result, we find ourselves in a perfect storm for technical outages.