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Very few SaaS products exist completely independently. Between cloud service providers, payment processors, content delivery networks, and more, chances are you rely on external systems to keep your product working. When these systems fail, it can leave you feeling pretty helpless. In some cases you might have fallback options, but oftentimes all you can do is wait for recovery and clean up the fallout.
Writing a public postmortem regarding an outage is essential to maintaining transparency and accountability when things go wrong in a service or system. The purpose of writing a postmortem is to analyze and document an incident or event that has occurred, usually with a focus on identifying its root causes, understanding what went wrong, and outlining steps to prevent similar issues from happening in the future.
We are excited to announce that we have raised a $12M round of financing led by Renegade Partners with participation from Google Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused venture fund) and XYZ Ventures. This brings our total funding to date to $15.2M ($20M CAD) alongside our other existing investors Y Combinator and 8VC.
🎵 Gotta give the people, give the people what they want! 🎵 You've been asking. And we've been listening. Over the past few weeks, we've been shipping frequently requested features to help you bring your incident management to the next level. It may be the dog days of summer, but let's ignore that, yeah? Just take a look at this recent changelog. Note that this is the biggest one we've ever published.