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The Unplanned Show, Episode 11: Donnie Berkholz on ITIL, DevOps and Platforms

In this episode, Donnie breaks down where ITIL came from and where it’s starting to go, and why that’s useful for teams that are trying to adopt DevOps practices in ITIL-oriented organizations. Donnie gives some great examples of building empathy and bringing the ITIL teams along for automating changes and decentralizing Sev 2 incident management. He also lays out his core philosophies on Platform Engineering and how to justify the effort.

Three Teams That Can Use AIOps to Work Smarter, Not Harder

There isn’t a boardroom today that isn’t asking what AI and generative AI in application can help drive efficiency and accelerate their business. For organizations looking to capitalize on ML and automation to improve their efficiency during incidents, AIOps is a tangible, proven application thatproves to be an exciting opportunity for ITOps teams. As we’ve seen across market landscape evaluations, there are a number of ways that solutions can be implemented.

The Unplanned Show, Episode 10: Mitra Goswami on Generative AI

In this episode, Mitra shares a bunch of valuable insights in how to successfully adopt generative AI, from selecting use cases that deliver value, having foundational data infrastructure in place, to having design and privacy guidelines. Grab a paper and pen and take some notes!

Demo Roundup: What's new in the PagerDuty Operations Cloud, August 2023

Customer-impacting issues detected and reported by customers anywhere from 20% to 90%+! In this episode of our quarterly demo roundup, we'll see how to quickly take action on a customer-reported issue, with the help of #GenerativeAI and more great new capabilities in the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Six of PagerDuty’s product managers give live demos.

Streamlining incident response: the power of integration in engineering tools

In the ever-evolving world of software development, incidents are bound to happen. Whether it's an unexpected server crash, a critical bug impacting user experience, or a security breach, handling incidents swiftly and effectively is crucial for maintaining a seamless user experience and preserving business reputation. That's where incident response tools come in — to help you automate, document, communicate, and mitigate.

More than downtime: the opportunity costs of poor incident management

In my last blog post, I wrote about the explicit costs of incidents — the ones you can easily track based on dollars lost. But the cost of incidents goes beyond the time spent resolving them. While we’re spending our time managing incidents (that includes mitigating and retrospectives), we’re incurring a large opportunity cost in terms of releasing the next big thing.