"Members of the #cybersecurity community who otherwise did not have a favorable perception of Uber were publicly coming to our defense." Melanie Ensign @Wednesday on an unexpected twist in a holiday #bugbounty dispute. #incidentmanagement #CriticalPointWarStories
Support ticket spike? Could be a third-party outage your team doesn't know about yet.
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New from me today: A roundup of Datadog #DASH2026 livestreamed engineering breakout sessions, which all touched on a common theme: that AI-driven #incidentmanagement tools only work if human #platformengineers have first designed a solid infrastructure and set of workflows.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366644443/Datadog-shops-AI-incident-management-needs-platform-engineers #datadog #o11y #AI
Start by having your three-person Crystal team build the detection system this week. Then create the playbook, the communication plan, and the retrospective process. A fourteen-employee startup can stop losing $659,000 a year when the team learns to respond to incidents faster than seems reasonable, minimize downtime before it escalates, and win.
#Blitzscaling #IncidentResponse #StartupOps #FintechHardware #DevOps #SRE #Crystal #PaymentSystems #StartupGrowth #IncidentManagement (34/34)
This week, create the classification system. Then build the playbooks. Assign specialized roles. Set up the rapid response station. Your team stops losing $43,000 per quarter. Your clients stay. Your platform grows.
#XP #Agile #ProductionSupport #AssemblyLineThinking #DevOps #TeamEfficiency #IncidentManagement #SoftwareEngineering #ProcessImprovement #LeanDevelopment (21/21)
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