Human trafficking is a $150 billion dollar criminal industry that denies freedom to over 40 million people globally—and it happens in every country in the world. Polaris is an organization dedicated to ending human trafficking and restoring freedom to survivors. For over a decade, Polaris has operated the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline.
I love writing software, but I hate dealing with bugs. They take you away from what you want to be doing and often lead you into a rabbit hole. At Sentry—an open-source error tracking platform that provides complete app logic, deep context, and visibility across the entire stack in real time—we have a few tips that we’ve honed over time to make error resolution painless (ok, less painful), including an official integration with PagerDuty.
It’s rare to find a business today that doesn’t rely on digital technologies and services. Retail is one example: Whether customers are buying online or in store, completing a transaction requires a website or point-of-sale system. The entire supply chain relies on IT services to deliver goods on time, to the right locations, and just like any company today, every department —from development and marketing, to HR and business services—has a critical tech stack.
Voices wield power. Staying silent is not an option. We must speak up and honor those who do. October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, when communities come together to support victims and survivors of domestic abuse across the world. Earlier this month, SisterDuty, one of PagerDuty’s Employee Resource Groups (ERG), led a campaign to build toiletry kits and raise funds to benefit Casa de las Madres, which offers shelter and support to those at risk of abuse.
Oracle OpenWorld kicks off this week in San Francisco so I thought this would be a great time to provide an overview of how PagerDuty integrates with Oracle Cloud to help teams add real-time operations to their cloud management.
With an almost 20-year career in social services—including working in institutions such as The University of Chicago, the United States Peace Corps, Chicago public schools, Child Protective Services, the Catholic Church, and for the U.S. federal government in probation and parole programs—my leap into Silicon Valley was as much a culture shock as the 2.5 years I lived in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador.
If you’ve ever been on call, you know that the incidents don’t stop because you have the flu. Or when you’re attending your child’s high school graduation. Or, as I found out firsthand, even when you’re at your own wedding. Confucius once said, “If you have never had a major occasion happen while you are on call, then you may not have ever lived.” (Okay, I totally made that one up.)
IT Operations, DevOps, and Developer teams count on PagerDuty’s 300+ integrations to power their end-to-end real-time digital operations, no matter which tool stack they use. Because PagerDuty’s customers span all sizes, industries, and digital maturity levels, our product team is constantly talking to customers about which tools they use for needs like communications, APM, and IT Service Management (ITSM).
Do any of these sound familiar? One of your best engineers just put in notice that they are taking a job elsewhere because the on-call load while working for you is destroying their personal life—but you honestly thought things were fine.
“I need to be notified if there’s a significant event ongoing with SignalFx.” This is what I tell my team. However, despite being the CTO of a monitoring company, creating the right set of alerts for me to stay informed of incidents in progress or potential issues was harder than it seemed at first glance. Why?
