June 2011 Summaries

PagerDuty's participation at Velocity 2011 was marked by engaging interactions with attendees, where they showcased their product and collected feedback from existing customers on desired features. The highlight of their booth was a contest where 157 participants, referred to as "pager jockeys" and "SMS ninjas," signed up to be "paged" via SMS during the conference. Allyson White from Cotendo won the grand prize of an iPad2 for being the fastest to acknowledge the page, while runner-up prizes included six months of free PagerDuty service and BluAlert Bluetooth Bracelets, with Greg Schechter from Google among the winners. The event was filled with excitement and concluded with gratitude towards all participants, with hopes of returning next year.

PagerDuty has introduced new REST APIs designed to enhance integration with custom tools and improve incident management capabilities. The Incidents API allows users to access and integrate incident data into custom operations dashboards, enabling the creation of tailored summaries and incident reports on various timelines. Meanwhile, the on-call Schedule API lets users programmatically access on-call scheduling data, facilitating integration with calendar applications and messaging systems like Campfire and Hipchat. Although these APIs are currently read-only, PagerDuty plans to expand their functionality to allow schedule creation and editing, and they aim to introduce additional REST resources such as user profiles and escalation policies in the future.

PagerDuty is set to attend the O’Reilly Velocity Conference 2011 in Santa Clara, CA, where it aims to engage with peers in the web industry to address the challenges of creating fast, scalable, and reliable sites and services. The company plans to participate by exhibiting its offerings, providing live demonstrations of its product, and distributing promotional items such as free T-shirts and discount codes. Additionally, PagerDuty will host a contest allowing attendees to showcase their alert-acknowledgement skills, with prizes including an iPad 2, BluAlert Bluetooth Bracelets, and six months of free service. The company also hints at significant announcements to be made during the conference, encouraging attendees to stay attentive for updates.

An event is being held on June 28th to welcome the San Francisco Perl Mongers' Group, where Gaëtan Voyer-Perraul from MongoDB will present "Perl +MongoDB => Mongers + Fun." The gathering, hosted by PagerDuty, promises to offer attendees the opportunity to learn from the talk while enjoying provided beer, pizza, and a chance to network with the team and fellow attendees. Further details and registration information for the event are available online.