#113 - Faster Incident Response feat. Tim Armandpour // CTO @ PagerDuty

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical LeadersThursday, December 5, 2024

Show Notes

Plan and PRACTICE for better incident response with insights from Tim Armandpour, CTO of PagerDuty. Learn the secrets to resilience from the team that mitigated the impact of a major outage—handling a 250% traffic surge while delivering on their SLA. Listen to find out:

- 🛠️ Why planning AND practice are both critical for incident response. - 🚧 How to practice for incident response (e.g Failure Fridays with Chaos Engineering) - 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Ownership: Why tech AND business teams must join post-mortems. - ☁️ How to mitigate the impact of your cloud provider’s lower SLA. - ⚓ Which architectural patterns are more resilient? - ⚖️ WARNING: “bend” the CAP theorem at your own risk

Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/113-tim-armandpour-cto-pagerduty

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