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alexsolo

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About alexsolo

Co-founder of PagerDuty.com (alerting and on-call management system for IT ops & devops).

Email: alex [at] pagerduty [dot] com

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    They probably meant that Amazon as a whole has an eng. team of 10,000 people. At least, that's what I told them :)

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    Comment #3784924

    San Francisco, CA PagerDuty - http://www.pagerduty.com FULLTIME * Front-end Developer ( http://www.pagerduty.com/jobs/engineering/frontend-engineer ) * Designer What we do: At Page…

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    San Francisco, CA PagerDuty - http://www.pagerduty.com FULLTIME, INTERN * Software Engineers ( http://www.pagerduty.com/jobs/engineering/software-engineer ) * Front-end Engineers (…

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    Comment #3300911

    San Francisco, CA PagerDuty - http://www.pagerduty.com FULLTIME, INTERN * Software Engineers: ( http://www.pagerduty.com/jobs/engineering/software-engineer ) * Front-end Engineers …

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    There's a good reason for that: when AWS has problems, we are under very heavy load because many of our customers are on AWS. The last thing we want to do at that point is an emerg…

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    We (PagerDuty) were down for a bit. We will move off of AWS asap once the dust settles.

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    PagerDuty ( http://www.pagerduty.com ) is hiring both interns and full-time software engineers. We're still quite small - 5 people. We're located in the SOMA district of San Franci…

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    The poster is assuming that once a YC startup is funded with a convertible note with no cap and no discount, that all other notes in the round will be at similar terms (and thus sm…

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    Comment #1970262

    It would be helpful if you mentioned where you are located.

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    It's not clear from the promo description, but it's actually the Small plan that's included in the PagerDuty deal ($24/month). EDIT: The description was updated, it's clear now. :)…

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    We have a simple integration API and we can also integrate with any system that can send email. Regarding the integration, just shoot us an email: support@pagerduty.com.

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    Thanks for the feedback! Very good point, we should allow you to send multiple replies per SMS alert to ack and then resolve (currently, there's a limit of one reply per alert). We…

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    Is anyone here using this in production?

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    Or just because MySQL is really to get started with when using Rails and other frameworks, and that when you're starting a business, you think "if I actually ever run into MySQL sc…

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    I agree. That's why we don't do uptime monitoring, or any kind of monitoring really. PagerDuty is an alerting system which plugs into any monitoring system (Pingdom, Nagios, Cloudk…

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    I'd love to hear what some of you think about SLAs. Is it worth implementing one?

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    We've taken steps to minimize outages as much as possible. The system is distributed across 3 data centers, with fast automatic rollover in case of a data center outage. We've arch…

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    The main reason we haven't offered a perpetually free account is because we're a bit different than other SaaS companies: hosting isn't our only cost, we also have to pay for each …