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Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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I have no relation to anyone working at PageDuty. I'd like some real customer experience (but I can't tell if you are really a customer or not). Sorry if this is not allowed. But why PagerDuty? I looked at it many times (especially I am an AWS customer so at every convention I see them). I can set up an alert as email or even as SMS message with AWS, by feeding only CRITICAL issues to the ops team. What other feature…

We use it at my company. I'm not intimately familiar with all the features, but here's what I can tell you: -It's easy to set up and manage different on-call schedules -It's easy for someone to manage their own alert settings (e.g. I can add a bunch of different ways to be contacted, like "text me, then call me after 5 minutes if I haven't ACK'd") -We've integrated it with our internal metrics collections systems so…

Exactly. Its a human intervention/alerting/escalation broker. No ops team (or team who does ops) should be without it.

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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post #16

I have no relation to anyone working at PageDuty. I'd like some real customer experience (but I can't tell if you are really a customer or not). Sorry if this is not allowed. But why PagerDuty? I looked at it many times (especially I am an AWS customer so at every convention I see them). I can set up an alert as email or even as SMS message with AWS, by feeding only CRITICAL issues to the ops team. What other feature…

Others have already mentioned most of what I like, but I'm also a fan of the muting. If an alert has already fired, additional instances of the same problem don't result in a new alert. No more opening your mail client to find 5000 emails with the same stupid "An error happened" subject line.

Integration was dead simple as well. I couldn't use the official client (because reasons) and it was only a few lines of Python to fire alerts from TIBCO Hawk.

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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post #16

I have no relation to anyone working at PageDuty. I'd like some real customer experience (but I can't tell if you are really a customer or not). Sorry if this is not allowed. But why PagerDuty? I looked at it many times (especially I am an AWS customer so at every convention I see them). I can set up an alert as email or even as SMS message with AWS, by feeding only CRITICAL issues to the ops team. What other feature…

Others have already mentioned most of what I like, but I'm also a fan of the muting. If an alert has already fired, additional instances of the same problem don't result in a new alert. No more opening your mail client to find 5000 emails with the same stupid "An error happened" subject line. Integration was dead simple as well. I couldn't use the official client (because reasons) and it was only a few lines of Pytho…

Curious - was it to alert on events from BusinessWorks apps or EMS servers?

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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post #16

I have no relation to anyone working at PageDuty. I'd like some real customer experience (but I can't tell if you are really a customer or not). Sorry if this is not allowed. But why PagerDuty? I looked at it many times (especially I am an AWS customer so at every convention I see them). I can set up an alert as email or even as SMS message with AWS, by feeding only CRITICAL issues to the ops team. What other feature…

Pagerduty puts alot of focus on reliability. They have redundant telephony providers and are hosted in multiple cloud provider data centers. You don't want your alerting service to go down with your service.

When AWS goes down, Twilio, hipchat, and many other services can go down with it.

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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Yeah, really killed Google.

You're using a mismatched understanding of experienced and professional. Shmidt wasn't a professional CEO, he was a software engineer who worked his way up the ladder and then took his experience as CEO to another company. Tejada's experience seems to be all related to corporate management, and thus is a professional CEO.

Tejada's experience seems to be all related to corporate management

She rocks at sales, and she knows how to push back corporate suits (keep them from interfering too much with engineering). She supports her employees over the shareholders. She's great.

That is the Jennifer Tejada I know.

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No one said that professional CEOs always fail. I said it's a bad sign when one is hired. Are you arguing it's a good sign, or that tech companies do better with non-founder managers?

Yes, and I am telling you that is an ignorant stereotype. Edit: You've edited your response so many times I can't keep up. I am not arguing any point of view. You unilaterally said that it is always a bad sign when a company brings in an experienced CEO. That is an ignorant stereotype. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail. Sometimes it's a smart hire, sometimes it's not. The late Dave Goldberg taking the reign…

Also in this case the CEO is staying on as CTO which is a good sign that this is a strategic hire rather than some internal issues leading to ousting of the CEO.

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, and I am telling you that is an ignorant stereotype. Edit: You've edited your response so many times I can't keep up. I am not arguing any point of view. You unilaterally said that it is always a bad sign when a company brings in an experienced CEO. That is an ignorant stereotype. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail. Sometimes it's a smart hire, sometimes it's not. The late Dave Goldberg taking the reign…

Also in this case the CEO is staying on as CTO which is a good sign that this is a strategic hire rather than some internal issues leading to ousting of the CEO.

Founder CEO staying on as quasi CTO while professional CEOs are brought in? Nobody tell OP about what Larry Ellison's done with Mark Hurd and Safra Catz.

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one said that professional CEOs always fail. I said it's a bad sign when one is hired. Are you arguing it's a good sign, or that tech companies do better with non-founder managers?

Yes, and I am telling you that is an ignorant stereotype. Edit: You've edited your response so many times I can't keep up. I am not arguing any point of view. You unilaterally said that it is always a bad sign when a company brings in an experienced CEO. That is an ignorant stereotype. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail. Sometimes it's a smart hire, sometimes it's not. The late Dave Goldberg taking the reign…

The parent said it was a sign, not a certainty. If it is a stereotype, it is not an ignorant one.

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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OT but what's with the splash screen? I can't get pass it (Chrome, Android). This is the second time today I've been unable to read a Forbes article. Why do they care so much about showing me some useless quote that they risk making the site unusable?

Re: PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO

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post #29

OT but what's with the splash screen? I can't get pass it (Chrome, Android). This is the second time today I've been unable to read a Forbes article. Why do they care so much about showing me some useless quote that they risk making the site unusable?

It happened to me too (Chrome, desktop), but after backing out and loading the page again it didn't stop at the spash screen. It seems as though the first load sets a cookie to indicate you've seen it on the first visit.
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