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Pingdom on June 22nd, 2011 by pingdom
As you may have noticed if you’re a Pingdom user, we had problems yesterday. In this post we will do our best to explain what happened and why, and how we will learn from this going forward.
And let us also take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. It’s super-important for us to provide you with a quality service, and those of you who have been with us for a long time hopefully know that we deliver on that promise. This was an extreme, highly unusual scenario.
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Pingdom on June 20th, 2011 by pingdom
It pays to combine your web service with a really good, well-documented and easy-to-use API. We’re finding this out first hand with our REST API. People keep doing cool things with it.
Services like Geckoboard have added Pingdom widgets, a UK developer recently made an excellent third-party Pingdom app for Windows Phone 7, and new things keep showing up.
Case in point:
Just over a week ago, a fellow Swede (Markus Liljedahl) released a neat little third-party Pingdom notifier for Mac.
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Pingdom on June 15th, 2011 by pingdom
A little update from Velocity 2011…
This is pretty cool. There’s a massive job board here at the conference where a bunch of Silicon Valley companies (and Silicon Valley-ish companies elsewhere) are looking for top-of-line operations and developer ninjas. Understandable, since there are a lot of insanely talented people around at this conference.
There are notes from Flickr, YouTube, Netflix, Groupon, Canonical, and many others. Quite a few business cards are pinned to the board, too. For you not at Velocity, this is what it looks like:
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Pingdom on June 10th, 2011 by pingdom
Next week it’s time for one of the most interesting conferences in our field: O’Reilly’s Velocity 2011. It’s all about scalability, web performance and operations and features a ton of interesting speakers, including bright minds from Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Microsoft, Akamai, Mozilla, Heroku, Opera and many other companies.
Several of us from Pingdom will be attending the conference to learn, be inspired and meet interesting people in the Internet industry.
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New office,
Pingdom on June 9th, 2011 by pingdom
We’re about to enter a new phase in Pingdom’s history. Over the next few months, we’ll be hiring even more people, and our current office is starting to feel a bit small.
That’s why we’ll soon be upgrading to “Pingdom Office 2.0.” We’ve already picked the office space, signed the lease, and the plan is to move in at the beginning of 2012. Before we move in, the whole office will have been rebuilt and custom designed for us, and will rival some of the coolest offices out there. We’re aiming for awesomeness.
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Pingdom on June 7th, 2011 by pingdom
We’re happy to announce that starting today, CloudFlare users have super-easy access to the Pingdom uptime monitoring service via CloudFlare Apps. With just one click, they can set up a free Pingdom account to monitor their website.
We have to give credit to CloudFlare for encouraging independent monitoring of their service. Clearly, they have nothing to hide and want their users to stay on top of their website uptime and performance. That a service promotes transparency is always a good sign.
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