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Distributed Task Scheduling, Part 3: Handling Data Center Outages

In an earlier post, we discussed how PagerDuty has built a distributed task scheduler using Akka, Kafka, and Cassandra. This open-source Scala library schedules and…


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Automating Db2Kafka’s Failover

Db2Kafka is an open source service developed at PagerDuty. It is a message pump to take records written to a MySQL table and publish them…


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Distributed Task Scheduling, Part 2: Handling Dynamic Load

In an earlier post, we discussed how PagerDuty has built a distributed task scheduler using Akka, Kafka, and Cassandra. This open-source Scala library schedules and…


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Building a DateTime Picker in Ember.js (Part 1)

I recently attended EmberConf 2017 and there was an interesting talk on Higher Order Components by Miguel Camba (I highly recommend watching if you haven’t already)….


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Distributed Task Scheduling with Akka, Kafka, Cassandra

In this post, we’ll explore the problem of scheduling and executing arbitrary tasks in a distributed infrastructure. Specifically, we’ll talk about how PagerDuty built an…


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Welcome to the PagerDuty Engineering blog!

Hello! We do a lot of engineering work to ensure PagerDuty is a reliable platform, since we’re used by a lot of the Internet. And…


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