O11ycast
67 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsExploring the observability side of software development.
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Ep. #68, Observa-What? with Michele Mancioppi of Dash0
March 19, 2024 07:10 - 47 minutes - 66.5 MBIn episode 68 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Michele Mancioppi of Dash0. This talk examines what it takes to make observability more accessible to non-experts in the space. Additional topics explored include the differences between monitoring and observability and Michele's shift from staff engineering to product management.
Ep. #67, Managing Infrastructure Costs with Performance Engineering
February 27, 2024 08:10 - 43 minutes - 61.4 MBIn episode 67 of o11ycast, Martin, Jess, and Liz dive deep on performance engineering. Pulling heavily from Liz’s extensive experience in the field, they share insights on utilizing data to balance resources like developers’ time and infrastructure costs. Listeners can expect to learn helpful lessons on infrastructure optimization, performance data accessibility, and why Honeycomb embraced Kubernetes.
Ep. #66, Building Observability Platforms with Iris Dyrmishi of Miro
January 17, 2024 08:10 - 34 minutes - 51.1 MBIn episode 66 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Iris Dyrmishi of Miro. They dive deep on what it takes to build an observability platform with open source tooling. Additionally, they explore the expense of outsourcing observability, the journey from logs to traces, tips for adopting new tools, and the spread of the FinOps movement.
Ep. #65, Simplifying Tracing with Sophie DeBenedetto of GitHub
November 21, 2023 08:10 - 35 minutes - 51.6 MBIn episode 65 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Sophie DeBenedetto of GitHub. This talk explores observability at GitHub, the value of tracing, the BEAM ecosystem, the Elixir language, and insights on leveraging observability at scale.
Ep. #64, Shared Language Concepts with Austin Parker of Honeycomb
October 24, 2023 07:10 - 34 minutes - 50.3 MBIn episode 64 of o11ycast, Jessica Kerr and Martin Thwaites speak with Austin Parker of Honeycomb. This talk explores how observability within an organization provides a shared language between teams to discuss reliability. Other topics examined include numeronyms in the tech space, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes.
Ep. #63, Observability in the Database with Lukas Fittl of pganalyze
October 04, 2023 07:10 - 36 minutes - 52.1 MBIn episode 63 of o11ycast, Charity and Jess speak with Lukas Fittl of pganalyze about database observability. This talk explores relational database management systems (DBMS), the open source library Sqlcommenter, query plans, and insights on supporting application teams.
Ep. #62, Adopting OpenTelemetry with Doug Ramirez of Uplight
September 07, 2023 07:10 - 36 minutes - 53 MBIn episode 62 of o11ycast, Jessica Kerr and Martin Thwaites speak with Doug Ramirez of Uplight. This conversation covers many aspects of adopting OpenTelemetry including integration concerns, social challenges, building trust, and running it at scale. Listen in to find out why after 35 years of diverse experiences across several industries, Doug’s excited about observability.
Ep. #61, What Comes After o11y with Heidi Waterhouse of Sym
May 31, 2023 07:10 - 43 minutes - 62.1 MBIn episode 61 of o11ycast, Jessica and Martin speaks with Heidi Waterhouse of Sym. Together they explore the sensations of proprioception and interoception, how they relate to the future of observability, and the ways machine learning could assist in simplifying that future.
Ep. #60, Customer-Centric Observability with Todd Gardner and Winston Hearn
April 27, 2023 07:10 - 46 minutes - 65.8 MBIn episode 60 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Todd Gardner of TrackJS and Winston Hearn of Honeycomb. This talk explores customer-centric observability, Request Metrics, Core Web Vitals, and insights on optimizing observability across different browsers.
Ep. #59, Learning From Incidents with Laura Maguire of Jeli
April 13, 2023 07:10 - 48 minutes - 69.6 MBIn episode 59 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Laura Maguire of Jeli and Nick Travaglini of Honeycomb. They unpack Learning From Incidents (LFI), resilience engineering, process tracing, safety science, key takeaways from the LFI Conference, and the human side of observability.
Ep. #58, Game Development with Brenna Moore of Second Dinner
February 15, 2023 08:10 - 38 minutes - 55.9 MBIn episode 58 of o11ycast, Jess and Liz speak with Brenna Moore of Second Dinner. This conversation explores game development and the many ways the industry has evolved, the infrastructure side of gaming, semantic conventions within the code, and career opportunities for developers aspiring to enter the field.
Ep. #57, Monitoring K8s Applications with Shahar Azulay of Groundcover
January 19, 2023 08:10 - 40 minutes - 57.5 MBIn episode 57 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Shahar Azulay of Groundcover about monitoring Kubernetes applications, improving the UI experience of observability tools, and utilizing APMs. Shahar shares lessons learned from his storied career in R&D leadership positions, cyber security, machine learning and AI, as well as general advice for developers, SREs, project leaders, and executives.
Ep. #55, The Dev Side of Observability with Martin Thwaites of Honeycomb
September 01, 2022 07:10 - 32 minutes - 47 MBIn episode 55 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Martin Thwaites, a developer advocate at Honeycomb. They discuss the dev side of observability, exploring topics like logging pipelines, the pain of context switching for developers, the significance of the DevOps movement, best practices for scaling engineering teams, and outside-in test-driven development.
Ep. #54, Cloud Native Observability with Alex Boten of Lightstep
June 30, 2022 07:10 - 39 minutes - 56.7 MBIn episode 54 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones and Jessica Kerr speak with Alex Boton of Lightstep. They discuss Alex’s book Cloud Native Observability with OpenTelemetry, OTel documentation and community, vendor lock-in, and the pain of instrumentation.
Ep. #53, Seduced by Reality with Jean Yang of Akita Software
June 20, 2022 07:10 - 28 minutes - 42.2 MBIn episode 53 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr speak with Jean Yang of Akita Software about legacy software, API-driven observability, tips for improving team efficiency, and insights on how observability can inform programming languages.
Ep. #52, Service Level Objectives with Alex Hidalgo of Nobl9
May 31, 2022 07:10 - 38 minutes - 56 MBIn episode 52 of o11ycast, Charity and Jess speak with Alex Hidalgo of Nobl9. Alex shares his formative experiences advocating for reliability, insights on utilizing error budgets, and the attributes needed to leverage senior-level influence within a socio-technical environment.
Ep. #51, Performance Engineering with Henrik Rexed of Dynatrace
April 13, 2022 07:10 - 38 minutes - 54.7 MBIn episode 51 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr are joined by Henrik Rexed of Dynatrace. This conversation covers a wide array of software and observability topics including trends in performance engineering, insights on minimizing system complexity, the shortcomings of auto-instrumentation, and best practices for avoiding vendor lock-in.
Ep. #50, Identifying Weak Spots with Benjamin Wilms of Steadybit
April 01, 2022 07:10 - 33 minutes - 47.9 MBIn episode 50 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr are joined by Benjamin Wilms of Steadybit. This conversation examines chaos engineering before production, identifying weak spots in your distributed system, and the health of the tech industry at large.
Ep. #49, Incident Commanders with Fred Hebert of Honeycomb
March 07, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 57.2 MBIn episode 49 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr speak with Fred Hebert of Honeycomb about incident commanders. Listen in for insights on the role of SREs, the educational value in incidents, improving feedback cycles, and choosing the right OKRs.
Ep. #48, Mastering Migrations with Adriana Villela of Tucows
December 23, 2021 08:10 - 28 minutes - 41.8 MBIn episode 48 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz chat with Adriana Villela of Tucows. They unpack Adriana's journey into observability, the community resources that lit her path, and her experience driving o11y at Tucows.
Ep. #47, Outcome-based Observability with Gibbs Cullen of Chronosphere
December 07, 2021 08:10 - 24 minutes - 36.6 MBIn episode 47 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones speaks with Gibbs Cullen of Chronosphere. Together they compare the roles of product managers and developer advocates, and discuss the phases of outcome-based observability.
Ep. #46, Guiding Observability Teams with James Deville of Procore Technologies
November 12, 2021 08:10 - 32 minutes - 46.7 MBIn episode 46 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity are joined by James Deville of Procore Technologies. James shares the insights he’s gained guiding o11y teams and the difficulties tech-forward teams face in non-tech sectors.
Ep. #45, Choosing OpenTelemetry with Chris Holmes of Simply Business
October 26, 2021 07:10 - 26 minutes - 39.9 MBIn episode 45 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz are joined by Chris Holmes of Simply Business. Together they unpack OpenTelemetry, the importance of tracing, and the observability adoption process at Simply Business.
Ep. #44, Examining OpenTelemetry with Vincent Behar of Ubisoft
October 07, 2021 18:00 - 30 minutes - 43.9 MBIn episode 44 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Vincent Behar of Ubisoft. Together they pull back the curtain on OpenTelemetry, exploring its popularity and standardization, as well as Vincent’s continuous journey to better understand the developer experience.
Ep. #43, Going Serverless with Apostolis (Toli) Apostolidis of Cinch
August 26, 2021 09:09 - 35 minutes - 50.6 MBIn episode 43 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Apostolis (Toli) Apostolidis of Cinch. They discuss Cinch’s move from containers to serverless, lessons learned from Team Topologies, and advice on structuring your org with strategic constraints.
Ep. #42, Continuous Profiling with Dmitry Filimonov of Pyroscope
July 20, 2021 08:49 - 29 minutes - 42.8 MBIn episode 42 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Dmitry Filimonov of Pyroscope. They discuss continuous profiling practices, use cases, and tools, as well as insights on how data is profiled at Pyroscope and how profiling resolution is measured.
Ep. #41, Organizing Conferences with Aaron Aldrich of Red Hat
July 06, 2021 09:52 - 35 minutes - 50.9 MBIn episode 41 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Aaron Aldrich of Red Hat. Together they pull back the curtain on organizing conferences, accelerating feedback cycles, multi-tenancy debugging, and getting started with new tools.
Ep. #40, Player Experience with Nick Herring of CCP Games
June 17, 2021 08:38 - 39 minutes - 56.8 MBIn episode 40 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Nick Herring of CCP Games. They discuss the challenges faced by engineers in the game space, the debugging procedure at CCP, and tactics for adopting large system changes.
Ep. #39, Sell The Sizzle with Jordan Simonovski of Atlassian
June 04, 2021 10:01 - 30 minutes - 44.1 MBIn episode 39 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jordan Simonovski of Atlassian. They explore the differences between tracing and logging, tactics for measuring reliability, and the journey of the observability team at Atlasssian.
Ep. #38, Infrastructure Changes with Andy Davies of Reaktor
May 21, 2021 10:35 - 36 minutes - 53.3 MBIn episode 38 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Andy Davies of Reaktor. Their conversation covers the importance of instrumentation, the prevalence of structured logging, and the potential risks of modifying database infrastructure.
Ep. #37, Synchronization Layers and Logs with Garry Shutler of Cronofy
April 30, 2021 10:30 - 31 minutes - 45.6 MBIn episode 37 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Garry Shutler of Cronofy. Together they pull back the curtain on building scheduling tools, making observability tools accessible to teams, and keeping deploys boring.
Ep. #36, Resilience Engineering with Jacob Scott of Stripe
April 15, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 41.2 MBIn episode 36 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jacob Scott of Stripe about the need for SRE teams, prioritizing customer happiness, and the limitations of distributed tracing tools.
Ep. #35, Government Software Systems with Mark Ferlatte of Truss
March 12, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 49.1 MBIn episode 35 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Mark Ferlatte of Truss. They discuss government software system failures and successes including Healthcare.gov and the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Ep. #34, Diminishing Complexity with Jaana Dogan of AWS
February 25, 2021 09:55 - 32 minutes - 47.2 MBIn episode 34 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jaana Dogan of AWS. They discuss Jaana’s career journey, life before observability tools, and reducing system complexity within large organizations.
Ep. #33, Information Accessibility with Katy Farmer of CircleCI
January 29, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 47 MBIn episode 33 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Katy Farmer of CircleCI. They discuss learned helplessness, understanding complicated systems through direct experience, and championing devs to fail gracefully.
Ep. #32, Managing Hardware with Gianluca Arbezzano of Equinix Metal
January 14, 2021 10:25 - 33 minutes - 47.8 MBIn episode 32 of o11ycast, Liz and Shelby speak with Gianluca Arbezzano of Equinix Metal. They discuss diversifying the way observability is evangelized, the indicators that an organization has outgrown off-the-shelf tools, and managing hardware.
Ep. #31, Rewarding Curiosity with Ellen Chisa of Dark
December 23, 2020 09:15 - 34 minutes - 49.2 MBIn episode 31 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Ellen Chisa of Dark discuss the benefits of making observability tools more accessible, tailoring feedback to individuals, and the many ways software may change in the years to come.
Ep. #30, Harder Conversations with Beau Lyddon of Workday
December 14, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes - 86.2 MBIn episode 30 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Beau Lyddon of Workday about the recent sea change in observability, the shortcomings of metrics, the role of senior engineers, and the responsibilities of corporations.
Ep. #29, Testing in Production with Glen Mailer of CircleCI
November 19, 2020 09:46 - 35 minutes - 43.6 MBIn episode 29 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Glen Mailer of CircleCI. They discuss testing in production and rethinking socio-technical systems from the ground up.
Ep. #28, People Problems with Austin Parker of Lightstep
October 29, 2020 10:08 - 37 minutes - 45.6 MBIn episode 28 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Austin Parker of Lightstep. They explore topics like rethinking human error, purposeful and intentional training, DevRel expectations, and underrated management tools.
Ep. #27, Ready For Observability with Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group
October 13, 2020 10:15 - 35 minutes - 34.7 MBIn episode 27 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity are joined by Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group. They zero in on the point at which a system needs observability, shortening feedback loops for maximum impact, and practicing radical candor.
Ep. #26, Unknown Unknowns with Parveen Khan of Square Marble Technology
September 29, 2020 10:22 - 33 minutes - 33.5 MBIn episode 26 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Parveen Khan of Square Marble Technology. They discuss Parveen’s journey into observability and the insights she’s gained as a test engineer and quality advocate.
Ep. #25, Reliability First with Amy Tobey of Blameless
August 31, 2020 11:12 - 31 minutes - 31 MBIn episode 25 of O11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Amy Tobey of Blameless. They explore the evolution of the SRE role, incident management, and the pains of rewriting system architecture.
Ep. #24, Beyond Code with Heidi Waterhouse of LaunchDarkly
August 11, 2020 10:53 - 33 minutes - 32.8 MBIn episode 24 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Heidi Waterhouse of LaunchDarkly. They discuss feature flags, value stream mapping, and quelling fear-driven development as a developer advocate.
Ep. #23, Beyond Ops with Erwin van der Koogh of Linc
July 23, 2020 10:32 - 36 minutes - 44.5 MBIn episode 23 of O11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Erwin van der Koogh of Linc. They discuss the startup ecosystem in Australia, release engineering, and the relationship between safety and success.
Ep. #22, Designing for Observability with Jimmy Bogard of Headspring
July 10, 2020 11:35 - 34 minutes - 42 MBIn episode 22 of O11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Jimmy Bogard of Headspring. They discuss maintaining balance for on-call engineers, what’s missing in the average engineer’s toolkit, and moving from monoliths to microservices.
Ep. #21, Learning Systems with Jessica Kerr
June 25, 2020 12:30 - 30 minutes - 43.9 MBIn episode 21 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jessica Kerr. Together they explore complex learning systems, how to view outages as opportunities, and the power of feedback loops.
Ep. #20, Between Dev and Ops with Marco Rogers of Mode
June 12, 2020 11:30 - 34 minutes - 42.4 MBIn episode 20 of O11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Marco Rogers of Mode. They discuss the wall between dev and ops, application analysis, and wrangling vast amounts of data.
Ep. #19, Giving Observability a Name with Shelby Spees of Honeycomb
May 20, 2020 09:25 - 29 minutes - 29.2 MBIn episode 19 of O11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Shelby Spees of Honeycomb. They discuss Shelby’s diverse engineering background and how the software community has gradually pulled back the curtain on observability.
Ep. #18, Real User Monitoring with Michael Hood of Optimizely
April 07, 2020 11:30 - 30 minutes - 44.7 MBIn episode 18 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Michael Hood, a senior staff performance engineer at Optimizely. They discuss real user monitoring (RUM), the shortcomings of traditional metrics, and ramping up observability.