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April Wrap-Up: Product Updates Across the PagerDuty Operations Cloud

PagerDuty is committed to redefining what digital operations look like in the era of AI and automation. This vision drives us to continuously innovate and enhance the PagerDuty Operations Cloud, ensuring every update brings our customers closer to achieving operational excellence. Building on the momentum of our Spring product launch at PagerDuty On Tour, we’re excited to showcase what we’ve shipped this quarter.

Why no one talks about querying across signals in observability?

In today’s complex distributed systems, observability has evolved from a nice-to-have feature to a mission-critical engineering discipline. Engineering teams across organizations depend on robust observability to maintain system reliability and quickly diagnose issues when they inevitably arise. However, current observability tooling significantly lags behind user expectations by failing to support a critical capability: querying across different telemetry signals.

Top 5 outages detected by StatusGator in April 2025

In April 2025, several major services faced outages that disrupted businesses and users globally. StatusGator provided early detection and real-time updates, helping users stay informed before official announcements. With its Early Warning Signals feature, StatusGator alerted users to potential disruptions even before the affected services acknowledged the issues—giving users a critical edge in responding to outages. Here are the top five outages detected by StatusGator in April.

Top 5 EdTech outages detected by StatusGator in April 2025

In April 2025, leading EdTech platforms experienced outages that impacted students, educators, and administrators worldwide. StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals played a key role in identifying and reporting issues before official sources did, enabling schools and institutions to respond swiftly. These real-time alerts helped reduce disruption during critical learning and administrative operations. Here are the top five EdTech outages detected by StatusGator in April.

Azure DevOps agent pools: diving deeper

Most of the time the build and deployment pipelines we create will run on compute provided by the Azure DevOps cloud and the only decision we need to make is whether to select a Windows or Linux Agent. Sometimes though, the specification for the VM that Azure DevOps spins up may not be right for our needs. We may need more memory or a particular OS version. This is when custom agents and Agent Pools come into play.

Redoing My Progress WhatsUp Gold Home Lab with Proxmox: A Journey of Failover, Backup and Recovery

Greetings, tech enthusiasts! I hope you’re all doing well. Today, I’m thrilled to share the story of my recent adventure in rearchitecting my home lab with Proxmox. This journey has been a rollercoaster of unexpected challenges, valuable lessons, and rewarding successes. I built a resilient and efficient setup that exceeded my initial expectations by leveraging modern virtualization and storage technologies.

The Role of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Revolutionizing Grocery Delivery Platforms

In the world of grocery delivery, speed isn't just a competitive edge-it's survival. Consumers have grown accustomed to frictionless, lightning-fast digital experiences. They want to open an app, tap a few items, and have groceries delivered in a matter of hours. Anything slower or clunkier quickly ends in an abandoned cart. But here's the twist: not every grocery business has the time, budget, or team to build a full-blown mobile app and a responsive website-then manage both forever. That's where Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) step in, not as a compromise, but as a reinvention.

Building a Portfolio Career in Education: Combining Teaching, Consulting, and More

Many professionals in education are increasingly looking for ways to build a portfolio career-a flexible, dynamic approach to work that allows them to combine multiple roles and projects. Whether you're an experienced teacher looking to diversify your career or someone interested in making an education career change, building a portfolio career can provide the flexibility, variety, and opportunity for growth that traditional roles may not offer.

Catalyx Champions Series Awards 2025: Celebrating Innovations That Drive Industry Transformation

The prestigious CatalyX Champions Series Awards ceremony concluded on April, 30, recognizing exceptional professionals whose visionary work is reshaping global industries. The competition, now in its third year, has established itself as a premier platform for identifying and celebrating true innovation leaders across multiple sectors.