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Observy McObservface

62 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -

The observability podcast that we let the internet name, and got exactly what we deserved. We're here to discuss trends and forecasts in all things observability, specifically the changing landscape as containerization and open source shake up the tech world.

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Cats and Clouds – There Are No Pillars in Observability with Yoshi Yamaguchi

November 03, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MB

Jonan Scheffler talks to Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, Yoshi Yamaguchi, about the way OpenTelemetry has brought together metrics and traces, profiling data, logging, and the importance of always enjoying the technology that you work on. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to ...

Meta-Observability – Observing the Observers with Jordan Chung

October 06, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MB

Jonan Scheffler talks to Founder and CEO of Krunch Data, Jordan Chung, about Krunch being a tool for content creators to understand what their audiences are finding engaging.  They discuss regional salaries and the belief in paying people for the work they perform, not paying them based on where they live, how there are more opportunities to work in Developer Relations now more than ever, that half of working in DevRel is convincing people that DevRel should even exist, and soon every compa...

Skycraft – Building Clouds and Wrangling Robots with Brittany Woods

September 22, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MB

Jonan Scheffler talks to new friend Brittany Woods about how shifting workloads to the cloud is the new cool thing, work-life balance, and the possibility and potentiality of terrifying robots. Also? Don't be afraid to have opinions. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on ...

Collective Collection – Shifting Cognitive Load with Jayesh Ahire

September 15, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Founding Engineer at Traceable.ai, Jayesh Ahire, about what experience we should give to developers by reducing cognitive load, how alerting is a very important component when it comes to monitoring observability, and gives the most wonderful and actionable advice to new developers: READ. Read as much as you can, focus on first principles, and your career will grow and thrive. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please sp...

Notebooks & Visualizations – Welcome to The Observaguild with Anjana Vakil

September 08, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Developer Advocate at Observable, Anjana Vakil, about the rise of data visualization, Computational Linguistics, and the importance of finding an incredible community to guide you through your learning journey. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear ...

Wordpress on Kubernetes – Making Friends with FinOps

September 01, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews DevOps Engineer, Arshad Zackeriya about how FinOps is involved with observability and how observability can help FinOps. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, plea...

Blame & Complexity – Prioritizing Impact with Joe Nuspl

August 24, 2021 14:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Joe Nuspl about how there are multiple ways to do things in software, his prediction that we, as a society, are going to continue feeling the effects of the pandemic in our supply chains for some time, and that feeling that everybody should have a thing that they tinker with that brings them joy. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping...

The Future is Bright – Open Source, OpenTelemetry and Observability with Buddy Brewer

August 10, 2021 17:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews New Relic’s own Buddy Brewer about the importance of monitoring and performance and how it’s an opportunity to take a wide lens to look at all of the different ways that software gets used by people every day. Jonan and Buddy also talk about how if we really want to make great software, we really need to focus on end-user experience, and that one of the things that is incredibly important today that we weren’t focusing on ten years ago, is the importance of intero...

The Future is Bright: Open Source, OpenTelemetry and Observability with Buddy Brewer

August 10, 2021 17:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews New Relic’s own Buddy Brewer about the importance of monitoring and performance and how it’s an opportunity to take a wide lens to look at all of the different ways that software gets used by people every day. Jonan and Buddy also talk about how if we really want to make great software, we really need to focus on end-user experience, and that one of the things that is incredibly important today that we weren’t focusing on ten years ago, is the importance of intero...

Pages & Practitioners – Pinging The People with Mandi Walls

August 03, 2021 14:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty, Mandi Walls, about Sysadmin vs DevOps, how people are the heart of DevOps, PagerDuty tooling processes, and how Mandi wishes she’d taken more time to learn more Python in the beginning of her career because it's everywhere! Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a mom...

Kibbles & Bytes – Taming Production with Charity Majors

July 27, 2021 14:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Co-Founder and CTO of Honeycomb, Charity Majors, about successfully shipping code, Chaos Engineering, and why it’s important to embrace feature flags. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you ...

Data-Driven Doomsday – Hastening The Robot Apocalypse with Milicia McGregor

July 21, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Milecia McGregor, a Developer Advocate at Iterative, about her background in mechanical and aerospace engineering, fiddling with neurotechnology, and shares some of the awesome projects she is working on or has worked on such as an air guitar app, and an IoT dog locator. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please con...

Open Evolution – Containers, Observability and Symmetry with Michael Hausenblas

July 07, 2021 18:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Michael Hausenblas who is a Solution Engineering Lead in the AWS open source observability service team. He also serves as a Cloud Native Ambassador at the CNCF. Together, they chat about open source observability including but not limited to Prometheus/OpenMetrics, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of...

o17e – Kubes, MUDs and ADHD with Rich Burroughs

June 30, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Senior Developer Advocate at Loft Labs and creator and host of the Kube Cuddle podcast, Rich Burroughs about being someone in tech who struggles with ADHD and how he is coping and getting help with that, doing Developer Relations in the DevOps space: DevDevOps, perhaps? And, how he thinks Kubernetes is a good choice if you're just starting out in tech. Because as it turns out, it appears that this Kubernetes thing is not slowing down anytime soon! Should you find ...

Users & Hugs – Charging Back The Value with Chris Riley

June 23, 2021 18:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Splunk Developer Advocate, Chris Riley about DevRel Advocacy, aiming more for HugOps for others when things inevitably go wrong, and bringing security practices earlier in the software delivery chain. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the sho...

Prosecco & Pandemics – Hiring During The End Times with Lauren Langdell

June 09, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Lauren Langdell, Founder of Women in DevOps: a platform that advocates for not just women's voices but also the LGBTQ+ community, people of different ethnicities, races, and religions, and neurodiverse people within software engineering and DevOps, about being a recruiter who helps underrepresented populations get into tech and thrive across many facets of humanity. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at...

Prosecco & Pandemics – Hiring During The End Times with Lauren Langdell with Lauren Langdell

June 09, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Lauren Langdell, Founder of Women in DevOps: a platform that advocates for not just women's voices but also the LGBTQ+ community, people of different ethnicities, races, and religions, and neurodiverse people within software engineering and DevOps, about being a recruiter who helps underrepresented populations get into tech and thrive across many facets of humanity. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at...

Open is Not Optional – Shifting Sands and Faxing on Blockchains with Steve Buchanan

June 02, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Microsoft MVP Steve Buchanan about Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), how Microsoft's been successful at working in enterprise and open source, where he believes GitOps is eventually going to go, and his excitement in regards to AI and blockchain and how they’re going to impact the world. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shippin...

Open is Not Optional: Shifting Sands and Faxing on Blockchains with Steve Buchanan

June 02, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Microsoft MVP Steve Buchanan about Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), how Microsoft's been successful at working in enterprise and open source, where he believes GitOps is eventually going to go, and his excitement in regards to AI and blockchain and how they’re going to impact the world. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you're going to all the trouble of shippin...

Rumble in The Empatheatre – Dungeons & DevOps with Jacob Plicque

May 25, 2021 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Grafana Senior Cloud Integrations Engineer Jacob Plicque about cofounding The Empatheatre: a Twitch stream for live tabletop RPG playing that incorporates a variety of safety tools to keep players psychologically safe and comfortable, why failure isn’t just okay; it’s actually awesome, comfortable disagreement, and the recent explosion in the popularity of developer relations. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please sp...

SLOgicians – Demystifying Reliability with Fred Moyer

May 19, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Observability Economist, SLOgician, and Zendesk Site Reliability Engineer  Fred Moyer about being a “SLOgician,” which he explains is someone who works on SLOs from a statistics perspective.  Additionally, a lot of his work is being what he describes as an “observability economist.” Fred works a lot with Zendesk’s observability systems. And because they’ve been growing so rapidly as a company, they've been scaling rapidly as well. Therefore, he works to ensure tha...

Mulch & Teapot Waterfalls – Shoveling Together for The People with Amanda Lewis

May 12, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Google Developer Advocate Amanda Lewis about DevOps Research, and Assessment (DORA), being hospitable to customers and finding creative ways to solve people's problems, and what exactly “a DevRel team does.”  Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on...

Mulch & Teapot Waterfalls: Shoveling Together for The People with Amanda Lewis

May 12, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Google Developer Advocate Amanda Lewis about DevOps Research, and Assessment (DORA), being hospitable to customers and finding creative ways to solve people's problems, and what exactly “a DevRel team does.”  Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on...

Firewalls & The Fog of War – Clearing the Haze in Tech with Shelby Spees

May 05, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Shelby Spees, Developer Advocate at Honeycomb.io about her background in teaching and speaking foreign languages, and the overlap between linguistics and software, because in large part, linguistics is about conveying information efficiently with different systems. Similarly, in software, we're always conveying information to machines and/or to each other, (and hopefully, more to each other than to the machines!) Shelby also talks about her work helping contribute...

Holding Truth – Sugar, Abstraction, and Certification with Renata Rocha

April 28, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Senior Architect at Slalom Build, Renata Rocha about coaching customers as to why a certain technology such as Kubernetes may or may not be the best choice for what they're trying to achieve, being in the practice of educating yourself constantly, and how it’s easier to understand how to solve problems when you have the tools in your hands. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. Whil...

Prototypal Ostriches – The Science of Finding Your Birds with Jocelyn Matthews

April 21, 2021 09:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Manager of Community Relations at Storj, Jocelyn Matthews, about camaraderie, community building, and the concept that in a sense, all communities are virtual, whether you're physically going somewhere or not, because the concept of community – the meaning of community –  really exists in your head ::mind blown:: 🤯 Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the ...

Resilient Elasticity – Green is Not Enough with Jay Gordon

April 14, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Microsoft Cloud Advocate Jay Gordon about how important it is to maintain your reputation as a business, that monitoring and observability are both integral parts of how we keep things online and running nowadays, and how serverless is the future and how it’s going to eventually make problems like hosting easier for devs. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to a...

Resilient Elasticity: Green is Not Enough with Jay Gordon

April 14, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB

Jonan Scheffler interviews Microsoft Cloud Advocate Jay Gordon about how important it is to maintain your reputation as a business, that monitoring and observability are both integral parts of how we keep things online and running nowadays, and how serverless is the future and how it’s going to eventually make problems like hosting easier for devs. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to a...

Shuffling Complexity – The Yellow Bricks are Made of Pain with Jeff Smith

April 07, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MB

Jeff Smith and Jonan Scheffler hang out and talk about complex issues, pragmatism, and being happy in the Ops. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interes...

Semaphores and Shipping – Simplicity and Purpose in Software with Marko Anastasov

March 31, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MB

Marko Anastasov, Co-Founder at Semaphore, talks to Jonan Scheffler about how Semaphore optimizes a happy path for developers in the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) space, having much love for Ruby on Rails, its community members, and its impact on software development, and if he could go back in time to give young Marko advice, it would be that if you're in the position that you want to build some kind of a product that you want other people to use and benefit from, just d...

Furbies & Community – Don’t Skin Your Friends with Mia Moore

March 24, 2021 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MB

Senior Developer Relations Program Manager at New Relic, Mia Moore talks to Jonan about how it’s healthy and cool to be friends with your boss, bringing their vision of the perfect DevRel job to fruition, and Furby hacking for fun!  Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on th...

Humans will Human – Dancing with Systems with Amy Tobey

March 17, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MB

Principle SRE at Equinix, Amy Tobey talks to Jonan about leadership anxiety and managing that, using SLOs as durable processes in our businesses that drag our focus back to customers on a regular basis, and the fact that as software developers, we can't learn it all because it's impossible.  Instead, Amy says that in order to succeed in the field, we’ve got to pick something that we can dig into and get good at some small corner of it. Then! We need to find ourselves a little, secure space ...

Docs Level 9000 – Open Sorcery with Gatsby with Austin Schaefer, Jerel Miller, John Vajda of New Relic

March 10, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MB

Austin Schaefer, Jerel Miller, John Vajda of New Relic talk about the company’s decision to open source their docs, how they did it, and some of the interesting technical challenges they faced while doing so. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. De...

Tragedy and Resilience – Everybody Dies with Aaron Aldrich

March 03, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MB

Aaron Aldrich talks about applying the Red Hat treatment to Kubernetes, working as a Managed OpenShift Black Belt, resilience engineering, and running Tabletop DevOps. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will recei...

Don’t Panic – Blackholes and a Culture of Curiosity with Liz Fong-Jones

February 24, 2021 17:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MB

Principal Developer Advocate for SRE & Observability at Honeycomb, Liz Fong-Jones, talks about common questions she regularly gets from companies and clients looking to implement observability into their workflow and defines observability as a mechanism in order to improve the operability of systems.  Liz says we shouldn’t talk about observability in a vacuum and that instead, it's a technique for analyzing production data that goes hand in hand with other production techniques, team philos...

Esperanto for Robots – Happy OpenTelemetry Day! with Austin Parker

February 17, 2021 17:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MB

Our first repeat guest ever, Austin Parker, Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep, talks about OpenTelemetry: an observability framework for cloud-native software that is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. You use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis to understand your software's performance and behavior. The OpenTelemetry specification is now in 1.0! What does this mean? It means we've achieved a major milestone in...

Good vs. Evil – The Radicalization of Pokemon on FidoNet with Jason Yee

February 10, 2021 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MB

In this episode, Jason Yee, Director of Advocacy at Gremlin, talks about community: growth, monetization, and sustainment, as well as creating a sense of belonging amidst living life during a pandemic by attending virtual events and participating in the new wave of online streaming. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a ...

Good vs. Evil: The Radicalization of Pokemon on FidoNet with Jason Yee

February 10, 2021 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MB

In this episode, Jason Yee, Director of Advocacy at Gremlin, talks about community: growth, monetization, and sustainment, as well as creating a sense of belonging amidst living life during a pandemic by attending virtual events and participating in the new wave of online streaming. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a ...

Spoons and Humans – Thought Work and Connection with Wesley Faulkner

February 03, 2021 17:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MB

In this episode, Wesley Faulkner, Developer Relations at Daily, talks about ethical networking by sharing your whole self and going beyond transactional relationships, i.e. what your job is, what your role is, and how those relate to each other.  Wesley also says that the people who are extremely good at what they do aren't as good as what you may perceive and that when you're getting started in programming, you're not as bad as you think. Don't be too rough on yourself and don't think that...

Pursuing Creation – Girl Geeks and Game Development with Lisy Kane

January 27, 2021 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MB

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Space Pixies – Kernel Instrumentation and the Future of Observability with Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee of Pixie Labs

January 20, 2021 17:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

In this episode, Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee of Pixie Labs talk about joining forces with New Relic to accelerate the Pixie Community. The goal at Pixie has been to try to provide a unified experience between what you see on the command-line and what you see on a web UI or mobile phone, instantly troubleshoot applications on Kubernetes – no instrumentation needed, and to run community, team, or custom scripts to debug as code: publish and share sessions as code with a team and/or communit...

Marshmallows and Tutus – Building Communities that Thrive with Katy Farmer

January 13, 2021 17:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MB

In this episode, Katy Farmer, Technical Community Manager at CircleCI, talks about creating welcoming and friendly spaces, but that you had better follow her code of conduct! Katy is not here for people being rude. She protects her angels within her community. Katy is also all about treating DevRel booth people equally. Everyone is qualified to be there. Don’t ask to speak to a “technical” person, if and when in-person conferences ever resume. Finally, Katy reminisces about working in custo...

Pens, Pages & Pain – Taming Alert Storms with Quintessence Anx

January 06, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MB

In this episode, Quintessence Anx, Developer Advocate at PagerDuty where she helps to train people on patterns for notifications, alerts, stopping alerts, and stuff so you don't get woken up unless you absolutely really should be woken up, talks about battling alert fatigue, mean time to recovery and post-mortems as being not the way to measure things, the evolution of ChatOps, and why it’s important as a mentor to introduce newbies to your professional network. Should you find a burning ne...

Weaponized IP: Licenses, Trademarks, and Kindness with Nell Shamrell-Harrington

December 30, 2020 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB

In this episode, Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, talks about fun corporate law-y things like open-source licenses, trademarks, and patents, diving head-first into the Rust language, and the importance of being kind. Don't do tech alone! Communities are fun. Community is important. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us som...

Weaponized IP – Licenses, Trademarks, and Kindness with Nell Shamrell-Harrington

December 30, 2020 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB

In this episode, Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, talks about fun corporate law-y things like open-source licenses, trademarks, and patents, diving head-first into the Rust language, and the importance of being kind. Don't do tech alone! Communities are fun. Community is important. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us som...

Donkeys and Coffee Cats – Driving Community and Open Source with Kat Cosgrove

December 23, 2020 13:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MB

In this episode, Kat Cosgrove, developer advocate at JFrog, talks about working on firmware updates for self-driving cars called Donkey Cars, the importance of on-point documentation, and getting the community, especially newbies, involved in open-source projects, programming, and speaking. There are no stupid questions, and stop calling your things “easy”! Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re g...

Choking Strangers – Humans, Software and Priorities with Tim Banks

December 16, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

In this episode, Tim Banks, Principal Solutions Architect at Packet, an Equinix Company, talks about prioritizing a customer-first mentality, how observability = insight, and the real cost of developer burnout, and why companies should be more proficient in helping to prevent it. As far as observability goes, Tim wants to know what's going on inside something be it a container, a process, or a stack – and he wants to know what's going on before something breaks. Monitoring and alerting typi...

Getting S.M.A.R.T. – Brains, Burn-in and Bending Towards Cloud with Anne Dalton

December 08, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MB

In this episode, Anne Dalton, Transformation Specialist at Red Hat’s NAPS Division, talks about parallels that can be drawn between neuroscience and software, teaching government agencies and other clients “The Cloud” and helping them to navigate how to go about implementing it successfully by using S.M.A.R.T. goals, all while relaying why observability and transparency are crucial. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@ne...

Gremlins and Banking – Questing Towards Chaos with Tammy Bryant

December 01, 2020 19:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MB

In this episode, Tammy Bryant, Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Gremlin, talks about specializing in chaos engineering and incident management. Connect with her further on her website, tammybutow.com. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Desp...

Gremlins and Banking - Questing Towards Chaos with Tammy Bryant

December 01, 2020 19:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MB

In this episode, Tammy Bryant, Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Gremlin, talks about specializing in chaos engineering and incident management. Connect with her further on her website, tammybutow.com. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Desp...

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