PurePerformance
288 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe brutal truth about digital performance engineering and operations.
Andreas (aka Andi) Grabner and Brian Wilson are veterans of the digital performance world. Combined they have seen too many applications not scaling and performing up to expectations. With more rapid deployment models made possible through continuous delivery and a mentality shift sparked by DevOps they feel it’s time to share their stories. In each episode, they and their guests discuss different topics concerning performance, ranging from common performance problems for specific technology platforms to best practices in development, testing, deploying and monitoring software performance and user experience. Be prepared to learn a lot about metrics.
Andi & Brian both work at Dynatrace, where they get to witness more real world customer performance issues than they can TPS report at.
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Episodes
From Performance Testing to Designing for Performance with Ernst Ambichl
April 22, 2024 14:57 - 51 minutes - 118 MBUse Things you Understand! Learn the fundamentals to understand the layers of abstraction! And remember that we don't live in a world with unlimited resources! These are advice from our recent conversation with Ernst Ambichl, Chief Product Architect at Dynatrace, who has started his performance career in the late 80s building the first load testing tools for databases which later became one of the most successful performance engineering tools in the market. Tune in and learn about how Ernst h...
SREs must not be your SWAT Teams with Dana Harrison
April 08, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBSREs (Site Reliability Engineers) have varying roles across different organizations: From Codifying your Infrastructure, handling high priority incidents, automating resiliency, ensuring proper observability, defining SLOs or getting rid of alert fatigue. What an SRE team must not be is a SWAT team - or - as Dana Harrison, Staff SRE at Telus puts it: "You don't want to be the fire brigade along the DevOps Infinity Loop" In his years of experience as an SRE Dana also used to run 1 week boot ca...
Why GitOps is not Git plus Automation for Ops with Roberth Strand
March 25, 2024 06:00 - 55 minutes - 128 MBWhether its GitOps, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Observability as a Service or other terms. We all have our definitions, but rarely do we have a consensus on what those terms really mean! To get some clarity we invited Roberth Strand, CNCF Ambassador and Azure MVP, who has been passionately advocating for GitOps as it was initially defined and explained by Alexis Richardson, Weaveworks in his blog What is GitOps Really! Tune in and learn about Desired State Management, Continuous Pull vs Pu...
What makes GitOps Enterprise Ready with Christian Hernandez
March 11, 2024 06:00 - 52 minutes - 120 MBCan you explain GitOps in simple terms? How does it fit into Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment? And what are considerations when rolling out GitOps in an enterprise? To get answers to those questions we sat down with Christian Hernandez, Head of Community at Akuity, who has a fabulous analogy to explain GitOps that I am sure many of us will "borrow" from him. Christian also explains the ecosystem he works in such as ArgoCD, Kargo as well as OpenGitOps...
Open Mainframe, Zowe, OpenTelemetry: Modernizing the Mainframe with Jessielaine Punongbayan
February 26, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes - 101 MBWhile the mainframe is powering the world's most critical system the words "modern", "open source" or "generative AI" typically don't come to mind. So lets change this! To do that simply tune in to our latest episode where we have Jessielaine (Jelly) Punongbayan, Sr. Technical Support Engineer at Dynatrace, telling us why she is excited about the modern Mainframe and how it brought her from the Philippines via Singapore and Czech Republic to Austria. We learn about all the open-source proje...
The 201 Milestone Episode on Automation, AI, CoPilot and more with Mark Tomlinson
February 12, 2024 07:00 - 58 minutes - 134 MB201 is the HTTP status code for Resource Created. It is also the number of PurePerformance Episodes (including this one) we have published over the past years. None better to invite than the person who initially inspired us to launch PurePerformance: Mark Tomlinson, Performacologist and Director of Observability at FreedomPay Tune in and listen to our thoughts on current state of automation, a recap on IFTTT, whether we believe that AIs such as CoPilot will not only make us more efficient in ...
Optimizing Cloud Native Power Consumption using Kepler with Marcelo Amaral
January 29, 2024 13:37 - 47 minutes - 109 MBMarcelo Amaral is a Researcher for Cloud System Optimization and Sustainability. With his background in performance engineering where he optimized microservice workloads in containerized environments making the leap towards analyzing and optimizing energy consumption was easy. Tune in to this episode and learn about how Kepler, the CNCF project Marcelo is working on, which provides metrics for workload energy consumption based on power models it was trained on by the community. Marcelo goes i...
OpenLLMetry - Observing the Quality of LLMs with Nir Gazit
January 15, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes - 116 MBIts only been a year since ChatGPT was introduced. Since then we see LLMs (Large Language Models) and Generative AIs being integrated into every days life software applications. Developers have the hard choice to pick the right model for their use case to produce the quality of output their end users demand. Tune in to this session where we have Nir Gazit, CEO and Co-founder of Traceloop, educating us about how to observe and quantify the quality of LLMs. Besides performance and costs enginee...
Why Developers have different Observability Requirements with Liran Haimovitch
January 01, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes - 114 MBAfter analyzing Distributed Traces over more than 15 years Brian and I thought that everyone in software engineering and operations must be satisfied with all that observability data we have available. But. Maybe Brian and I were wrong because we didn’t fully understand all the use cases - especially those for developers that must fix code in production or need to quickly understand what code from somebody else is really doing without having the luxury to add another log line and redeploy on ...
Mobile, AI, LLMs, Observability & Resiliency - Key Topics for Banks in Hungary with Adam Gajdi
December 18, 2023 07:00 - 11 minutes - 26 MBI was invited to speak at BankTechShow in Budapest, Hungary where the nations IT leaders in the banking sector presented and discussed the future of banking - both in the cloud as well as what it means for the physical bank branches. I got a chance to sit down with Adam Gajdi, IT Solutions CoE Lead at K&H, who walked me through the process of their recent new mobile banking app launch. Adam highlighted the importance of observability for both business owners as well as developers. Furthermor...
Recap KubeCon 2023 NA, State of Platform Engineering and more with Andi Grabner
December 04, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes - 64.8 MBBesides attending KubeCon 2023 NA Andreas (Andi) Grabner, co-host of PurePerformance but guest today, has also travelled parts of the US to chat with the broader observablity community on topics such as Platform Engineering, Observability, DevOps, Automation & Security. Tune in and get a quick recap of all the topics Andi has picked up on his recent trip
Observability, Cybersecurity, DevOps & SRE - Learning from the Public Sector with Willie Hicks
November 20, 2023 07:05 - 46 minutes - 106 MBZero-Trust Architectures. Data-Flow Inventory. User Experience First! Those are key initiatives in the public sector to ensure that digital services delivered to citizens around the globe are not only working with a flawless user experience but are also safe from any bad actors trying to disrupt agencies on local, stage and federal sectors. In this episode we invited Willie Hicks, Federal CTO at Dynatrace, to learn more about the state of observability and security with government agencies W...
Blue turns Green: Sustainable IT is everyone's business with Mario-Leander Reimer
November 06, 2023 07:05 - 51 minutes - 117 MB4% of worldwide CO2 emissions come from IT and like in all other industries we have big potential to not only reduce the carbon footprint but also lower costs. Tune in to our episode where we have Mario-Leander Reimer, CTO at QAware GmbH, talk about his top 3 suggestions for Sustainable IT: Making the right architectural choices, Right-sizing your environments and shutting down environments not needed! Mario is also heavily involved in the CNCF and gives us an overview of projects to look int...
Don't burst in Flames: 20 years of Performance Engineering with Martin Spier
October 23, 2023 06:05 - 49 minutes - 114 MBMartin Spier was one of six engineers to take care of all of Netflix Operations about 10 years ago. Back then performance and observability tools weren't as sophisticated and didn't scale to the needs of Netflix as some do today. FlameScope was one of the Open Source projects that evolved out of that period, visualizing Flame Graphs on a time-scaled heatmap to identify specific performance patterns that caused issues in their complex systems back then. Tune in to this episode and hear more pe...
Inside Africa - Cloud Native Observability Journeys with Kelvin Klein
October 09, 2023 06:00 - 17 minutes - 39.2 MBAfrica is not only the second largest continent in the world - its also top when it comes to adoption of cloud native technologies. I was fortunate to spend a week in South Africa and had the chance to spend a lot of time with Kelvin Klein, Dynatrace Product Manager at Mediro ICT. After two observability events in Johannesburg and Cape Town and several meetings with local tech leaders I got to sit down with Kelvin and learn more about the status of Observablity, Cloud Native and Security in S...
The Future of Ops is Sleep with Amit Chiba from Nedbank
September 25, 2023 18:42 - 10 minutes - 25.1 MBI was fortunate to travel to South Africa and meet many tech leaders in Johannesburg and Cape Town to talk about Observability, Security, Automation, Platform Engineering, DevOps and FinOps. One of those leaders is Amit Chiba, Multi Product Specialist at Nedbank. I sat down with Amit to discuss his personal journey and his projects at Nedbank, one of the leading financial institutions in South Africa. Tune in and hear from Amit how self-service platform engineering helps them to scale observa...
Developer Productivity Engineering: Its' more than buying faster hardware with Trisha Gee
September 11, 2023 06:05 - 44 minutes - 102 MBDo you measure build times? On your shared CI as well as local builds on the developers workstations? Do you measure how much time devs spend in debugging code or trying to understand why tests or builds are all of a sudden failing? Are you treating your pre-production with the same respect as your production environments? Tune in and hear from Trisha Gee, Developer Champion at Gradle, who has helped development teams to reduce wait times, become more productive with their tools (gotta love t...
Serverless Observability needs a paradigm shift with Toli Apostolidis
August 28, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBOnly a few can claim they have successfully created a Pure-Serverless architecture and only those really understand the challenges of observing real event driven architectures. Apostolis Apostolidis (also known as Toli) is one of those people and its why we invited him back to discuss all the lessons learned from his time as Head of Engineering Practices at cinch. Tune in and learn about the evoluation of Serverless observability and the challenges when observing API Gateways, Queues and Ste...
Practical Platform Engineering vs the Marketing Hype with Maurico (Salaboy) Salatino
August 14, 2023 06:00 - 54 minutes - 124 MBCodifying Golden Paths that ideally don't need you to build a K8s Operator! This is what Practical Platform Engineering should look like! In our latest episode we learn from Maurico (Salaboy) Salatino who has been contributing to open source for the past 12 years. Tune in and learn from his journey of designing and built platforms. He shares his opinion on the Platform Engineering skillsets, how to design for self-service, how to pick the right tools out of the 160+ CNCF project options and ...
Sifting through the Noise of Platform Engineering with Saim Safdar
July 31, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutes - 110 MBReducing the cognitive load by simplifying computing for every developer in an organization! One of the many definitions of Platform Engineering. But what is Platform Engineering for real? Just a new hype? What problem does it really solve? How does it link with DevOps and SRE? Are there any standards or reference architectures available? To get a new perspective on Platform Engineering we invited Saim Safdar, CNCF Ambassador and member of the CNCF TAG App Delivery Platform Working Group. Tun...
Unlocking the Power of Observability: Engineering Practices for Success with Toli Apostolidis
July 17, 2023 06:05 - 47 minutes - 108 MBAre you frustrated with your team's ability to troubleshoot issues in production despite their proficiency in pushing out new builds? The root of this problem may lie in the absence of Observability Driven Development. In our latest episode we are joined by Apostolis Apostolidis (also known as Toli) who - as Head of Engineering Practices at cinch - has spent his past years enabling teams to adopt the easiest path to value. He is passionate about DevOps and has a strong opinion on how to educ...
Observability Evolution: From Sys Admin to Digital Readiness Manager with Mark Forrester
July 03, 2023 06:05 - 43 minutes - 100 MBDo you know why customers spend more money at a pub when ordering at a table vs ordering directly from at the bar tender? Do you want to know how to get SaaS vendors to send you their observability & telemetry data? Do you want to know the career path of how an Infrastructure Analyst turned Digitial Readiness Manager? Tune in to this PurePerformance episode where we sat down with Mark Forrester from Mitchell & Butlers answering all these questions and also drawing the parallels to Observabil...
The De-Facto Standard of Metrics Capture and Its Untold Histogram Story with Björn Rabenstein
June 19, 2023 06:05 - 54 minutes - 124 MBAs far as we know - besides Kubernetes there is only Prometheus that belongs to the prestigious group of open-source projects that have their own documentary. Now why is that? Prometheus has emerged as the go-to solution for capturing metrics in modern software stacks, earning its status as the de facto standard. With its widespread adoption and a constantly expanding ecosystem of companion tools, Prometheus has become a pivotal component in the software development landscape. Join us as we ...
GraphQL, API Gateways, API-Led Growth – How to make APIs Observable with Sonja Chevre
June 05, 2023 06:05 - 33 minutes - 77.2 MBAPIs are powering and empowering software innovation as they enable new use cases on top of existing services. Observability into API usage to answer questions like: how APIs are called, what APIs do, where APIs fail, where APIs are slow, where APIs are misused … has to be on top of mind for architects that decide to build or use APIs.In this episode we welcome Sonja Chevre, Group Product Manager at Tyk, who recently gave a captivating talk at KubeCon about using OpenTelemetry to get insights...
Why Cyber Defense is Hard: A Closer Look at the latest security research with Stefan Achleitner
May 22, 2023 06:05 - 52 minutes - 120 MBSecurity comes with a price tag, such as additional wait time when going through checks at the airport or when inspection network packages at your firewall.To learn about current approaches to cyber defense and cyber deception we invited back Stefan Achleitner, Lead Researcher Cloud Native Security at Dynatrace. Tune in and learn why it is important to keep changing and using different passwords, why you should monitor all your servers, what zero day vulnerabilities are, the role of eBPF in s...
Unlocking the Power of OpenTelemetry: Insights from an OTel Expert at NWM
May 08, 2023 06:05 - 49 minutes - 114 MB36 million generated OpenTelemetry spans per hour for GraphQL based queries – that’s just one of the stats we discussed with Justin Scherer, Sr Developer and Consultant, who is leading OTel adoption and Shift-Left observability efforts at NWM. For Justin, OpenTelemetry helps commoditize data gathering in modern cloud native environments so that the backend observability platform of choice can focus on answering higher level business impacting questions.If you are about to roll out OpenTelemet...
Adopting Open Observability Across Your Organization with Daniel Gomez Blanco
April 24, 2023 06:05 - 56 minutes - 129 MBOrganizations that experience Monitoring Data Obesity – having too many arbitrary logs or metrics without context – are suffering twice: high cost for storage and not getting the answers they need!OpenTelemetry, the cloud native standard for observability, solves those challenges and therefore sees rapid adoption from both startups and established enterprises.In this episode we have Daniel Gomez Blanco (@dan_gomezblanco), Principal Software Engineer at Skyscanner and author of the recently pu...
The Future of DevOps: Can ChatGPT be Your Ultimate Engineer?
April 10, 2023 06:05 - 57 minutes - 132 MBDevOps didn’t die when the world started raving about SRE. And while some proclaim that platform engineering finally kills DevOps it is more an evolutionary process to bring DevOps practices to a new audience that is building and running apps on a new technology stack. But what about ChatGPT? Can it be the best DevOps engineer you ever had? Will it be able to build and optimize our delivery pipelines? Will it tell us which products to build and how? Which architecture to choose and how to be...
“You Build It, You Run It Doesn’t Scale!” with Luca Galante
March 27, 2023 06:00 - 54 minutes - 124 MBThe famous tagline from Werner Vogel in 2006 is still used in many presentations promoting DevOps and the autonomy of development teams. But how long does and did this really scale? Based on our guest Luca Galante, Head of Product at Humanitec, organizations that reach 50-100 engineers start experiencing the first bottlenecks. After initial workarounds sometimes leading to Shadow Ops it’s the time where organizations look into building Internal Development Platforms (IDP). This is where Plat...
Don’t look away from the next cyber security threat with Stefan Achleitner
March 13, 2023 19:11 - 54 minutes - 124 MBWhile Spring4Shell, Ransomware and attacks on critical infrastructure were the most severe attacks in 2022 the evolving trends in 2023 are around the rising power of AIs, complexity and therefore misconfiguration of cloud native stacks as well as social engineering challenges as part of the post-pandemic shift back towards the office.Tune in and learn from Stefan Achleitner, Lead Researcher Cloud Native Security at Dynatrace, about getting better in securing software supply chain, understandi...
Is The Practice of Practice the better Gameday with Matt Davis
February 27, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 121 MBHow do you prepare yourself for the next incident? Not at all? Are you running game days where you simulate incidents? Or are you following the steps of good musicians who are constantly practicing with their band members to always be best prepared for the next big gig!Tune in and hear from Matt Davis, Specialist in Learning from Incidents, how he runs weekly continuous practice and learning sessions with DevOps, SREs, Developers, Marketers or Technical Writers and what the outcomes are.Matt ...
OpenTelemetry for the Mainframe and more with Christian Schram
February 13, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes - 111 MBDid you know that almost 60 years after IBM presented the mainframe 92 of the worlds top 100 banks run mainframes handling 90% of all credit card transactions? We didn’t either until we recorded this episode with Christian Schram, Solutions Engineer at Dynatrace, who has spent the last 20+ years helping organizations optimizing their mainframe environments. Tune in and learn about the mainframe, how the cloud native project OpenTelemetry has made it to the mainframe and what the most common p...
How not to get Kubernetes cluster hijacked with Nico Meisenzahl
January 30, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes - 112 MBDo you know that 53% of security related issues on Kubernetes are caused by misconfiguration? Me neither!To raise the awareness of how to protect your Kubernetes cluster and workloads from being hijacked we invited Nico Meisenzahl, Microsoft MVP and GitLab Hero, to walk us through a set of best practices that everyone in cloud native should know to contribute to a more secure cloud native environment. In our conversation we cover a lot of what Nico has shown in his recent talks at different c...
Learning from Incidents is what good SREs do with Laura Nolan
January 16, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes - 114 MBIncidents happen! And when asking Laura Nolan who was an SRE at Google and Slack, healthy organizations should take proper time to analyze and learn from them. This will improve future incident response as well as overall system resiliency.Tune in to this episode and hear Laura’s tips & tricks what makes a good SRE organization. It starts with doing good write ups of incidents, doing your research on incident reports of software and services that you are looking into using. We also spent a go...
What happened in 2022 and where 2023 is taking us!
January 01, 2023 07:05 - 42 minutes - 97 MBWhat a year 2022 was! We had 25! episodes with amazing guests from all over the world covering topics from Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Migrations, DNS, Value Streams all the way to Persona Driven Engineering and drawing parallels with Digital Marketing. If you are new to our podcast check out the playlist and listen to some of those we mentioned during our episode!Now its time to say Thank You listeners for the continued support. After 5+ years of podcasting we still see ris...
Building the right thing: Learning from digital marketing expert Bernhard Dominguez
December 19, 2022 03:00 - 53 minutes - 122 MB“If I wouldn’t measure it I wouldn’t know it!” or “Build, Measure, Learn! ”These quotes could be from any engineer building new digital services, observing them in production and based on that learn how to improve their software.They are however from Bernhard Dominguez, Digital Consultant at FACTOR, who we invited to the show. Bernhard highlights a lot of parallels between his work planning and executing digital marketing strategies and the world we live in: designing, operating and optimizin...
SRE for the non-unicorns (aka Enterprises) with James Brookbank
December 05, 2022 07:05 - 52 minutes - 121 MBYou have a CISO (Chief Security Information Officer) but no CRO (Chief Reliability Officer)? You blame people if systems crash? You scale your people in the rate of scaling your infrastructure? If you answer any of those questions with YES then you should tune into this podcast as you probably struggle adopting Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in your organization. James Brookbank, Cloud Solutions Architect, has dealt with resiliency topics in a large enterprise prior to joining Google. In...
What is Dynatrace Grail and Why should you care with Andreas Lehofer
November 21, 2022 07:05 - 43 minutes - 98.7 MBDynatrace recently announced Grail – promising boundless observability, security and business analytics in context. You may think: that’s a lot of nice words that other solutions claim as well. So why should you care about Grail? What is the real problem it solves and how does it solve it? Tune in and hear from Andreas Lehofer, Chief Product Officer at Dynatrace as he boils it down to two critical issues: * Cost vs Value of your data: Current approaches are expensive as you keep 95% of you...
How I became an SRE in FinTech and what this means with Diana Najda
November 07, 2022 07:35 - 42 minutes - 96.7 MB“I was not that interested in coding but more in understanding the impact of software on human beings” says Diana Najda, SRE & Monitoring Lead, when we asked her how she ended up leading the efforts around Site Reliability Engineering. Tune in to our conversation and learn how Diana is bridging the gap between Dev, Ops and Business by ensuring that the right people get the right telemetry data from their observability platform. She gives us insights into her definition of DevOps and SRE, how...
How to fail at Serverless (without even trying) with Kam Lasater
October 24, 2022 06:05 - 48 minutes - 111 MBServerless and other emerging technologies hide the complexity of the underlying runtimes from developers. This is great for productivity but can make it really hard when troubleshooting behavior that needs deeper insight into those runtimes, platforms or frameworks. In this episode we hear from Kam Lasater, Founder of Cyclic Software. Kam has run into several walls while he was implementing solutions from scratch using Serverless technologies as well as other popular cloud services. He rece...
How to optimize performance and cost of k8s workloads with Stefano Doni
October 10, 2022 06:05 - 43 minutes - 98.6 MBOver the years we learned how to optimize the performance of our JVMs, our CLRs or our databases instances by tweaking settings around heap sizes, garbage collection behavior or connection and thread pools. As we move our workloads to k8s we need to adapt our optimization efforts as they are new nobs to turn. We need to factor in how resource and request limits on pods impact your application runtimes that run on your clusters. Out of memory problems are all of a sudden no longer just depend...
Value Streams – Tying Business Results to your DevOps & Cloud Transformation with Adam Dahlgren
September 26, 2022 06:05 - 46 minutes - 106 MBIn economic turbulent times leaders get asked questions like: “What’s the return on investment of your DevOps or Cloud Transformation? Did we really get better and more efficient? Or did we just blow a lot of money out the window?” Connecting business results with your technical initiatives is what would answer those questions. To learn how this works we invited Adam Dahlgren, SVP Product at Allstacks. From Adam we learn about Value Stream Management, how to align with your top level OKRs an...
Why is it always DNS, TLS or Bad Config? This and many other learnings from Philipp Krenn
September 12, 2022 06:05 - 47 minutes - 110 MBWe all want to leverage technology to solve problems. New and shiny toys are appealing to look which sometimes means we loose the insights on the base technologies that powers most of our connected lives, such as DNS or TLS. In this podcast we invited Philipp Krenn (@xeraa), Dev Advocate Team Lead at Elastic, and learn about DNS, TLS and other bad config changes. We learn about Log4Shell, how the Java Security Manager was a big help in fighting Log4Shell, why its been deprecated and also get...
Persona Driven Engineering – The magic of knowing your end users with Barbara Ogris
August 29, 2022 06:05 - 37 minutes - 84.6 MBHow do you a design a feature if you don’t know for whom it is for? How do you define SLOs (Service Level Objectives) if you don’t know what your users expect from you? How do you design performance tests and workloads if you don’t know which user behavior to simulate? In this episode we have Barbara Ogris, Sr Product Experience Designer at Dynatrace, who walks us through the concept of target personas that she helped establish within Dynatrace. It changes product and observability discussio...
The 3 Levels of SRE and bridging the gap to DevOps with Michael Wildpaner
August 15, 2022 06:05 - 53 minutes - 121 MBSRE vs DevOps, SRE or DevOps or is it SRE & DevOps? No better person to ask than somebody that has been an SRE for much longer than our industry is talking about Site Reliability Engineering. Michael Wildpaner, Sr Engineering Director Cloud Security at Google, started as an SRE for Google Maps back in 2006. Fast forward to 2022 Michael has a lot of hands-on experience about the SRE role, the different levels of SRE that one organization can apply and how it connects with DevOps. Tune in and...
The SLO Dilemma: Slight Reliability Discussions with Stephen Townshend
August 01, 2022 06:05 - 46 minutes - 107 MBFor some out there SLOs (Service Level Objectives) are the silver bullet to building and operating reliable software. But nothing is as shiny on the inside as it looks on the outside. In this episode we invited Stephen Townshend, former Performance Engineer now converted to Site (Slight) Reliability. Stephen (@the_kiwi_sre) has experienced the tough side of establishing SLOs within an organization. It’s a constant battle between focusing on reliability and new features and a lack of change i...
The State of Cloud Native Security with Anais Urlichs
July 11, 2022 06:05 - 44 minutes - 102 MBSecurity is everyone’s business. And as everyone seems to be moving to Cloud Native it's important to understand what the security landscape in k8s, containerized apps, serverless, … looks like. To learn more about this we invited Anais Urlichs (@urlichsanais), Developer Advocate at Aqua Security and CNCF Ambassador of the year 2021. Over the past years Anais has educated thousands of people on cloud native, devops and security on her YouTube Channel. Tune in and learn more about the differ...
DevOps is 80% culture: But what does this really mean with April Edwards
June 27, 2022 06:05 - 48 minutes - 112 MBWhile this episode started out with a recap of April Edwards (@TheAprilEdwards) keynote called “Putting the Ops into DevOps” we quickly got April talk about what measures Microsoft has set to embrace the cultural change needed for their DevOps transformation: Every service has a public health dashboard, putting the customer in the center, make products open source, eat your own dog food, align your objectives with the team, … Besides this great conversation that finally gave some great input...
Introducing OpenFeature – Stepping into the footsteps of OpenTelemetry with Mike Beemer and Todd Baert
June 13, 2022 06:05 - 43 minutes - 100 MBFeature Flagging has gained a lot of momentum which we can observe by counting the number of feature flagging solutions. To ensure a good developer experience when implementing feature flags the CNCF OpenFeature project was launched during KubeCon 2022 in Valencia. It is aiming to provide a feature flag standard similar to what OpenTelemetry did for Observability. Tune in to this podcast where we have two of the founding members Mike Beemer and Todd Baert explain why it was the right time to...
Introducing OpenFeature – Stepping into the footsteps of OpenTelemetry with Mike Beamer and Todd Baert
June 13, 2022 06:05 - 43 minutes - 100 MBFeature Flagging has gained a lot of momentum which we can observe by counting the number of feature flagging solutions. To ensure a good developer experience when implementing feature flags the CNCF OpenFeature project was launched during KubeCon 2022 in Valencia. It is aiming to provide a feature flag standard similar to what OpenTelemetry did for Observability. Tune in to this podcast where we have two of the founding members Mike Beamer and Todd Baert explain why it was the right time to...