It's always DNS, even at Cisco: behind a weeks-long incident
SRE Lead Ricard Bejarano (Cisco) and Jorge Lainfiesta (Rootly) sit down to talk about a recent intermittent incident that had the team scratching their heads.
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How to Prioritize Incident Management Integrations for Faster Response
Incident response rarely fails because teams lack tools. More often, it fails because those tools are disconnected when pressure is highest. A monitoring system detects the issue. An ITSM platform holds the incident record. Engineers coordinate in chat. A bridge is created manually. A cloud team checks infrastructure events. Security teams review detections. Leaders ask for updates. Meanwhile, responders are jumping between systems, chasing context, and trying to make decisions quickly.
How AI-First Operations Unlocks Compounding Engineering Productivity
Engineering teams have plenty of ideas, but they’re often short on time to act on them. As software systems grow more complex, an increasing share of engineering capacity is consumed by non-building activities: investigating alerts, coordinating fixes, and managing operational incidents. Every hour spent diagnosing failures is an hour not spent shipping features or experimenting with new product ideas. Over time, that lost capacity compounds.
June 24 Global Shopify outage: Timeline and impact
On June 24, 2026, Shopify experienced a widespread service disruption that affected storefronts, admin dashboards, and merchant access across multiple regions. While the outage did not impact every user, reports quickly surfaced from merchants around the world who were unable to access stores, log in to administrative tools, or complete routine operations.
Multi-Agent Architectures - What we shipped, what broke, and what we'd do differently
At LLMday Lisbon, our Software Engineer, Viktor Vasylkovskyi, highlights the realities of building production AI agents with LangGraph - sometimes getting it right, often learning the hard way. This talk is about what was actually shipped, including a distributed multi-agent setup at PagerDuty. Viktor breaks down the real tradeoffs between LLM-driven and deterministic orchestration, what broke, and how he’d approach it differently now.
6 use cases for agentic AI in major IT incident management
Enterprise IT operations leaders are realizing that legacy incident management processes cannot keep pace with today’s sprawling, hybrid-cloud enterprise environments. Enterprise IT doesn’t look anything like it did even five years ago. Hybrid cloud architectures, distributed microservices, and increasingly rapid CI/CD cycles have increased the speed and complexity of IT operations by orders of magnitude, leaving ITOps teams struggling to keep up.
Making Critical Incidents Impossible to Ignore - Derdack SIGNL4 - The Alerting Experts
In this episode, Doreen Jacobi talks with Henri-Paul Bourassa, IT Administrator at exo, the public transit organization serving the Greater Montréal area. Like many IT teams responsible for around-the-clock operations, Henri-Paul's team already had monitoring in place. The challenge wasn't finding issues - it was making sure the right people were alerted quickly enough to respond.
On Call During the FIFA World Cup? Here's How IT Teams Stay Connected
Watching the FIFA World Cup with friends while on call? Being on call doesn't have to mean missing out on life's biggest moments. Whether you're at a packed sports bar, hosting a watch party, or cheering on your favorite team, critical incidents can happen when you least expect them. That's why IT teams rely on OnPage's persistent, attention-grabbing mobile alerts. Unlike emails, texts, or traditional notifications that can get lost in the noise, OnPage's critical alerts are designed to break through distractions and ensure urgent issues are never missed.
Incident Management Teams: Ready for Critical Situations
A malfunction in the baggage handling system at Berlin Brandenburg Airport disrupts the conveyor network that transports luggage across the airport. With more than 70,000 passengers traveling through BER every day and flight schedules timed down to the minute, even a small disruption can quickly lead to delays, missed connections, cancellations, and high costs. Fortunately, the Incident Management team receives the alert in real time and responds immediately.
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From firefighting to forward planning: a practical route to operational innovation
Operational innovation is often treated as a back-office efficiency exercise, but in practice, it is becoming a strategic discipline. As AI moves deeper into day-to-day operations, technical leaders need a clearer way to cut toil, reduce risk and build the capacity to innovate. For many operations teams, it starts with incident management. When responders are trapped in noisy alert streams, manual escalations and fragmented workflows, innovation is pushed aside by the urgent work of keeping services available.