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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

How to create an on-call schedule that doesn't suck.

A lot of tech companies struggle with creating an effective and efficient on-call schedule internally for their product and service, this results in much longer downtimes when something goes wrong. They often over-burden their team members with repeated on-call duty which results in team member fatigue. Here’s how to create an on-call schedule that your team might love.

What Are Service-Level Objectives? Lessons Learned

Service Level Objectives, or SLOs, are an internal goal for the essential metrics of a service, such as uptime or response speed. We’re probably familiar with this definition, but what is the value of setting these goals? We’ll take a look at SLOs as both a powerful safety net and a tool to inform the allocation of engineering resources, while also considering the cultural learnings of SLO adoption.

LaaS (Language as a Service) With Duolingo

欢迎! [Huānyíng] In Mandarin, this means “welcome,” the first Chinese phrase I ever learned as a Mandarin Language Minor in college. It took me two weeks to understand the tonal variations, one week to memorize and properly execute the written stroke pattern, and another week to hone the ability to say it with confidence to my teacher (aka 老师 [Lǎoshī]).

SOC 2 Type 2: A Company-Wide Commitment to Security

From open-sourcing our employee security training to sharing security best practices, PagerDuty is committed to contributing to the security community as a whole and considers security as a company-wide commitment. Our customers trust us to keep their data safe and secure. And on December 13, 2019, we took another step in embracing that trust by completing our SOC 2 Type 2 examination.

Six Healthcare Trends in 2020

In the ever-changing healthcare industry, hospitals or treatment centers continue to experience an upswing in technology innovation and adoption. Tech innovation in healthcare equates to quick response times and maximum patient satisfaction. At its core, new technology and processes are built to streamline healthcare workflows, ensuring that patient issues are always addressed. In this post, you will discover six healthcare trends that will make an immediate impact on healthcare in 2020.

3 Ways to Help CS and Engineering Work Better Together

As Engineering teams start spending more time and effort on incident response, they are usually focused on improving process with their specific team. We think there are additional benefits that can come from a holistic approach to improving incident response across your organization. In this post, we will explore how you can enable Engineering and Customer Success teams to work more effectively when an incident occurs.

What you can show on your status page

When something goes down, the first thing a customer does is check if there is something wrong with their systems or if it is an issue with one of their service providers. So it’s important to make sure that your status page has all the information that is needed where they don’t feel the need to raise an issue or create a ticket, adding to your support costs.