@GergelyOrosz: Oh, as I gathered, one of the last nails in the coffin for PD was… reliability. Lack of, that is. Uber started to measu…
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Uber is dropping PagerDuty after 12+ years due to reliability issues in alerting, highlighting the importance of reliability for infrastructure tools.
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Oh, as I gathered, one of the last nails in the coffin for PD was… reliability. Lack of, that is.
Uber started to measure how reliable the solution is in alerting on outages, and it was well below what they deemed acceptable.
If you’re infra: reliability SO important! Else 💀
Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz): Just heard that after 12+ years of being a customer, Uber is finally dumping PagerDuty.
PagerDuty used to be the leading paging + incident management tool, went public, then fell asleep at the wheel when Slack came around, then AI. Now everyone tech company I know is moving off.
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