Today is a very proud day for PagerDuty and PagerDuty fans around the world—we rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange to begin our first day of trading as a public company. Today, as a community, we celebrate the collective success of our users and customers and an incredible milestone few companies achieve. While our IPO is a huge milestone, our journey together is just beginning.
Ever have this experience? After a miserable commute in stormy weather, you get to your college campus only to find out that that it’s been closed for a snow day. Fortunately, this no longer has to be an issue! Mass notification tools enable academic institutions to send timely and urgent notifications to their faculty members or students. In this way, campus communities will always know when an event or situation will affect their academic schedules.
Dealing with IT outages and downtime is one of the biggest technical challenges of the modern era, costing North American businesses an estimated $700 billion per year. Today's world of interconnected cloud services and microservice architectures has created infinitely more opportunities for something to go wrong and disrupt service. When that happens, there's an urgent need to alert the right people or teams to fix things.
