Commons Corner

Have you ever met someone who can fly a commercial airplane AND manage IT operations? Meet Anthony Goolab, Service Operations Manager at TUI. Since last year, he’s been orchestrating TUI’s incident management with PagerDuty. But wait, there’s more! Anthony is also a published author and patent holder. Read the full interview ⬇️-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What is your current job title? How many years of experience in the industry do you have?:Service Operations Manager, Group IT 1Yr at TUI, 19 Years in IT. Feel free to share more about your background (professional/personal), where you are originally from or based in, a memorable moment in your career/life, or any "one thing we can’t guess from your LinkedIn profile" type of story.:I have worked in IT for 19 years

Right before hoping on stage at PagerDuty on Tour London, Andrew White joins us to chat about their journey at Checkout.com to migrate from legacy operations, how AI helped this and how to balance cultural changes.  🎧 Listen on Page it to the Limit or in your favorite podcast app: Spotify | Apple | Pandora | 

👉 WATCH ON-DEMAND: Demo Roundups! Zero Trust Security + Runbook AutomationThe shift to zero trust security requires a model that is identity-based, centrally managed, widely encrypted, and always authenticated and authorized. PagerDuty’s Runbook Automation enables users to automate, orchestrate, and accelerate issue resolution in remote environments, with best practice security guardrails, reducing human error and saving time.🎤 Host: Sid Verma, Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty🎤 Guests: Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist at BeyondTrust; Jake Cohen Senior Product Manager at PagerDutyCheck out some resources shared during the session: Discover

Right before their session at PagerDuty on Tour London, Laura Morgan joins us to chat about first incident stories, the future of AI in Spotify and more.Laura Morgan: Over 20 years of tech industry experience within a broad range of domains, including Public Sector, FinTech to ISPs. Skills range from a deep knowledge in system architectures, resilience & reliability engineering to formal & informal leadership. 🎧 Listen on Page it to the Limit or in your favorite podcast app: Spotify | 

​@mwalls, DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty, penned a byline in OpsMatters on how personal resilience boosts operational resilience.Mandi explores how human wellbeing and technical stability are inseparable in modern IT operations. Learn why investing in team's resilience today prevents tomorrow's outages.As a business, it's worth remembering that the human element of IT operations needs looking after just as much as the technology they maintain. Business leaders can't have one without the other.Read now: Personal Resilience Boosts Operational Resilience

When we’re talking about incidents, we know it’s not a matter of if, but when. It spares no systems: ours, yours or your vendors’. We’ve all seen widely-used products experience incidents, and the domino effect it has on all operations relying on them for seamless functionality. Vendors offering narrow, chat-centered incident management tools might seem attractive at first glance, but they fundamentally misunderstand the complexity of enterprise operations. When critical systems fail, you need more than just a pretty chat interface – you need a battle-tested, comprehensive incident management platform.Learn more in this blog by our Product Marketing Manager, Débora Cambé

Dotan Horovits joins us this week to chat about what’s been going on in the world of Open Source, license changes, and community forks.Dotan Horovits lives at the intersection of technology, product and open source. With over 20 years in the hi-tech industry as a software developer, a solutions architect and a product manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud and cloud-native architectures, big data solutions, DevOps practices and more. Horovits is an international speaker and thought leader, as well as an Ambassador of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). He runs the successful OpenObservability Talks podcast, and is a sought writer. Currently working as senior developer advocate for the Open Source Strategy & Marketing team at AWS, Horovits evangelizes on Observability in IT systems with special focus on the OpenSearch project by the Linux Foundation. Listen now: 

👉 WATCH ON-DEMAND: Demo Roundups! Security Incident ManagementCyber attacks can harm businesses operations, diminish brand reputation, and decrease revenue making a robust security strategy essential. PagerDuty Operations Cloud leverages the power of AI and automation to respond, automate, and remediate security incidents ensuring cyber resiliency. 🎤 Host: Mandi Walls (DevOps Advocate @ PagerDuty)Guests: PagerDuty’s Casey Clems (Security Engineer) and Sam Ferguson (Principal Product Manager).Check out some resources shared during the session:  Security Incident Management Use Case 

Want to learn more about automation with Rundeck? Pick your local chapter and join us at a next Rundeck by PagerDuty Meetup, informal 1-hour virtual events where folks who work and build with Rundeck by PagerDuty open-source software get together to share automation stories and use cases. 😎 Summer Edition: Register for upcoming Rundeck by PagerDuty meetups

If you haven’t had the chance to join us live for our first Demo Roundups! webinar of the year, we’ve got you covered!👉 WATCH ON-DEMAND: Demo Roundups! Chat-First Incident ManagementIntegrated with robust automated workflows and genAI-enhanced insights, PagerDuty's new chat experience enables end-to-end incident management with guided remediation directly from where responders work. Join Product Managers Jacky Leybman and Michael Wettick to see it all in action!Check out some resources shared during the session: Michael Wettick’s research on how and why people ask for help during incidents: 

👋 Get to know Andrea Berlingieri, a DevOps Engineer with 2+ years of experience in Rundeck by PagerDuty! He empowers teams by automating tasks and streamlining cross-departmental workflows.Driven by a passion for open-source, he’s built secure, intuitive systems that make tech accessible and efficient for everyone involved.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Feel free to share more about your background (professional/personal), where you are originally from or based in, a memorable moment in your career/life, or any "one thing we can’t guess from your LinkedIn profile" type of story:I'm originally from Italy but currently based in Amsterdam. I've always been very curious about software and IT, and that has lead

We're excited to announce the winners of our Community Pulse Survey lucky draw, each receiving a $50 gift card! Congrats to ​@Mike Boehm ​@Den Rebueno ​​​​​ 👏👏👏 Survey Participant Profile:IT Operations & DevOps/SRE Experience Level: 3+ years with PagerDuty Tried new PD products this year, most mentioned: Incident Workflows Jeli features Learning Preferences:50% of respondents like video content - long-form step-by-step tutorials, while the other half prefer learn from written content - docs, blogs, and articles.Thanks to all the community members who replied to the survey.