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Hear From Product Incident Response Lightning Talk

Learn about what's new with PagerDuty Incident Response from the Summit 2021 Launch. Our Product team shares how you can benefit from our latest updates and enhancements and enjoy demos that were recorded live from Summit 2021 featuring PagerDuty Incident Context in MS Teams, Slack Insights previews, Stakeholder Updates in ChatOps, Priority-based Business Service Subscription, Past Incidents on Mobile, Add Responder Notification Rules.

Three Key Takeaways from The State of Digital Operations Report 2021

2020 heralded a year of increased complexity and customer demands, which isn’t going away. In this new normal, organizations will still be tasked with keeping up this break-neck pace. So, what did digital operations look like in 2020 compared to 2019?

What's New: Introducing Next-Gen ChatOps With PagerDuty and Slack

In this new world of digital everything, new application versions usually mean that you’re going to get bigger and better features, more capabilities, and an uplifted user experience, right? When I talk to customers, many can’t wait to upgrade the PagerDuty integrations that they depend on to test new features. If you’re a PagerDuty for Slack user, the next-generation version of our Slack integration will certainly be an exciting development.

Experiencing Turbulence? Hypercare Helps Travel and Hospitality Firms Manage Sky-High Demand

Many sectors suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the travel and hospitality industry was struck particularly hard as the world went into lockdown and governments urged us to stay home. According to the International Air Transport Association, global air passenger demand in 2020 was down a record 65.9% from the previous year, and the tourism industry saw an estimated loss of 100.8 million jobs worldwide.

PD Summit21: Transforming Infrastructure Teams Through Observability

What is this ""observability"" thing that everyone is talking about? Observability allows you to navigate the dark unknowns with echolocation while others attempt to fly blindly without it. Are your dashboards all green, but you still have an issue brewing? Do you need instant feedback based on the Core Analysis loop? Are your engineers tired of waking up at 3 AM for the expected issues? Is there a lack of time for experimentation? Generate your own answers and create a meaningful course of action with observability.

PD Summit21: The Netflix Reliability Story: A Brief History of How We Evolved Resilience to Failure

In Netflix engineering, we’re driven by ensuring Netflix is there when you need it to be. We strive to provide a service that people love and can enjoy anytime, anywhere. An important foundation for bringing our customers joy is a strong focus on reliability that ensures Netflix will be available when they need it. In this talk, I’ll tell the story of how we've grown our reliability practices over time to meet the changing demands of microservices and distributed computing.

PD Summit21: Adopting and Maturing to Service Ownership with PagerDuty and Rundeck

Among the common goals of today's engineering and operations teams is to adopt a culture of service ownership: ""You build it, you own it."" As with many ancillary objectives to driving DevOps across an organization, this is easier said than done. Sometimes this is in small part due to the technology stack/architecture of a given company. But more often than not, this is because teams lack the human-to-technology mechanisms that allow for a culture of service ownership.

PD Summit21: Migrating to L1 Support to PagerDuty

Learn how Maersk transitioned from operating with an L1 support team to using PagerDuty to drive an efficient operational support model. In this talk you will learn how implementing PagerDuty within the platform SRE team was part of a major re-org with the goal of driving a new operations model for a highly available (99.999%) platform that lead to outstanding results. At Maersk, we saw increased efficiencies and reduced TTR along with other significant advantages of using PagerDuty from both on-call and management perspectives.

PD Summit21: AWS and PagerDuty: Better Together -- A Digital Transformation Journey

PagerDuty’s platform for real-time operations helps teams manage a complex transition from siloed and centralized approaches to multiple, distributed teams supporting a hybrid cloud infrastructure. To make this journey successful, one thing is clear: your people, technology, and operational processes need to be aligned in real time. That’s why we’re continuing to invest in our partnership with AWS. The integrations we’re bringing to market have always been centered on unlocking AWS’s unprecedented scale and agility for our joint customers.