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From AI-pocalypse to AI-driven Resilience: 4 Lessons from The Last of Us

Critically-acclaimed TV show The Last of Us is back. As a huge fan, I find striking parallels between the series’ post-apocalyptic environment and modern digital operations. Just as Ellie and Joel’s (the main characters) world was fundamentally changed by an unstoppable force of nature, today’s operations are being radically transformed by increasingly complex, interconnected systems, and the power of AI and automation.

Reduce the impact of hybrid cloud incidents with AI-powered ITSM

Hybrid and multicloud IT environments have become standard for enterprises, and with good reason. These environments offer greater flexibility, improved resilience, and optimized performance by allowing organizations to leverage the best features of multiple cloud providers while maintaining the security of on-premises infrastructure.

Incident Alerting and On-Call Management for MSP (Managed IT Services) Explainer

Managing incidents, on-call, and mass notifications as an MSP just got easier. OnPage helps Managed Service Providers cut down MTTR, hit SLAs, and make sure critical alerts from tools like Jira, ConnectWise, Autotask, and ServiceNow reach the right people—fast. Plus, when urgent updates need to go out to your entire business ecosystem, BlastIT delivers instant mass notifications.

Incident management tool integration

Picture the scene: a high‑severity alert fires, Slack lights up, and dashboards scream red. You’re juggling Datadog, PagerDuty, Jira, and status pages while trying to coordinate fixes. The problem isn’t a lack of tools; it’s that they aren’t talking to each other. This guide explains why incident management tool integration matters, how it cuts response times, and where to start.

AT&T Email-to-Text Service ended: Why SIGNL4 is the Best Alternative

In a move that caught many businesses and IT teams off guard, U.S. mobile carrier AT&T officially discontinued its email-to-text gateway service. ATT email to text was shut down on June 17, 2025 ( read more ). This change means that sending sms messages and mobile text alerts to AT&T subscribers using the format number@txt.att.net or number@mms.att.net no longer works.

Why Reliability Starts with the Network, even in the AI era, with Marino Wijay

In this episode, we explore how networking has shaped reliability as we know it. Marino Wijay cloud networking expert and Staff Solutions Architect at Kong shares how his journey began not as an SRE, but with cables, routers, and switches. Marino explains the evolution of the fabric holding systems together through virtualization, and how software-defined networking, which is now a key element to resilient applications.

The New Rootly Ringtones: How Research-based On-Call Sounds

We set out to create a ringtone that wasn’t just loud—but the sound of a modern pager. Something that wakes you up, but without triggering a full-blown adrenaline spike. In this video, go behind the scenes with sound engineer Gorjão as he crafts a how research-based on-call sound sounds like.

How incident.io helps to reduce alert noise

We're often asked: "How does incident.io help reduce alert noise?" And it’s a fair question. It’s typically much easier to add new alerts than to remove existing ones, which means most organizations slow-march into a world where noisy, un-actionable alerts completely overshadow the high-signal ones that indicate a real problem.

Demo - Don't Settle for Less: Upgrade to PagerDuty in the Post-Opsgenie Era

Don't wait for Opsgenie's EOL to future-proof your operations. Migrating from Opsgenie to JSM isn't an upgrade–it's a leap of faith. Avoid risking your operations with a “good enough” tool and take the opportunity to rethink your incident management approach entirely. PagerDuty offers the enterprise-grade reliability, continuous innovation, and comprehensive incident management capabilities that modern operations demand.