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A Year of Donuts: A Retrospective

A year ago, I introduced a new Slackbot, fondly known as Donut, to PagerDuty. When I interned in San Francisco last summer, I was looking for ways to meet people who weren’t on my team, in my department, or even in the same office as I was. Randomly messaging employees in the Toronto office or on the Sales team seemed like a little much, even for someone like me, who enjoys taking occasional strides outside of her comfort zone.

Creating a Chrome extension in 2018: The good, the bad and the meh

Last week, we shipped an initial version of Puppeteer Recorder, a Google Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Puppeteer script. It turns out Chrome extension development is almost like real web development, but with a weird dash of quasi embedded development mixed in. This post talks you through the development lifecycle when creating an extension and lists some of the architectural gotcha’s. Source code for the extension in question is on github.

6 Java debugging tools for 2018 and beyond

In an ideal world, bugs would never reach production. But, software errors are an inevitable part of a developer’s life. Java debugging tools exist to help us resolve errors faster, so we can get on with doing what we do best. This list of Java debugging tools will help you evaluate your options quickly so you can find the best for the job.

Simplifying security auditing, Part 1: Regularly reviewing server activity

Everyone knows about the importance of log management in IT security. Yet, organizations struggle with implementing effective log management techniques in their networks. This blog series aims to revisit the fundamentals of log management and discuss the different security events you need to keep track of in each of the different systems in your environment.

Partner Integrations At Summit

It’s no secret that PagerDuty’s robust and ever-expanding integrations ecosystem and highly engaged partner community help drive value for our customers. In addition to updating existing integrations to keep up with new product features and adding new IT tool integrations, we’re busy working on new ways to connect our shared customers to unique solutions.

Serverless Architectures on AWS Lambda: The OpsGenie Experience

In this article, Serverless computing (Functions as a Service), specificallyAWS Lambda for certain jobs is explored to explain the basics and reasoning for why it makes sense to use– with some example use-cases around OpsGenie. But first, let’s talk about the current cloud services available for running software.

Mapping Layer 2 with Site24x7

At Site24x7, we know how cumbersome it can be to manually track devices as your network grows. What you need is a network monitoring tool that has an automatic discovery and mapping feature that tracks new devices in your network. With network admins like you in mind, we made developing Layer 2 network maps a high priority. These maps automatically discover a complete network, with each interconnection clearly labeled.