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“Whether open source or commercial – just focusing on logs, traces and metrics is limiting our conversation and missing the point what observability really is!”, says Dotan Horovits, Tech Evangelist at Logz, in his opening statement in this podcast. Listen an and learn more about why observability is not about collecting data. Observability is rather a data analytics problem as it needs to give humans answers to DevOps, SRE and Business questions.To learn more beyond what was discussed in this podcast listen in to OpenObservability Talks, stay up to date on OpenTelemetry or follow Dotan at @horovitsShow LinksDotan Horovits on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/Open Observability Talkshttps://openobservability.io/Open Telemetry Projecthttps://opentelemetry.io/Dotan Horovits on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/horovits

Who said that automation and data-driven decisions is only for DevOps or SREs? Scalability challenges or quality constraints are just as important to digital marketers like Nina Tollefson, Art Director at Dynatrace.The pandemic caused many events to transform to a fully virtual. That was also true for Dynatrace’s flagship annual global user conference Perform in February 2021. To successfully transform and deliver a flawless experience for Perform attendees, Nina had to embrace automation in her field of work. Just as DevOps engineers Nina updated her tool chain. Figma was a new digital marketing platform of choice to automate, improve collaboration, become more efficient and scale her digital marketing work to support Perform. Today she can cash in on the automation investment she made last year as Perform 2022 is about to start. Thanks to data-driven digital marketing automation it looks like another amazing experience for our global Dynatrace user base. Thanks, Nina, for sharing your story and allowing us

Log4Shell was an unwelcome early Christmas present for many IT teams around the globe. Asad Ali, Senior Director Dynatrace Sales Engineering, was involved starting December 9th – helping organizations around the world to react to the new vulnerability threat.In our discussion we learn how the vulnerability works technically, how runtime AppSec vulnerability detection eliminates false/positives and how teams around the globe are preparing to protect their software supply chain for future vulnerabilities.To learn more about Log4Shell check out Dynatrace’s Log4Shell Resource Center including educational blogs as well as Asad’s webinar on Detecting and Remediating Log4Shell with Dynatrace webinar.Show LinksAsad Ali on Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alikingdom/Dynatrace's Log4Shell Resource Centerhttps://www.dynatrace.com/resource-center/log4j-vulnerabilityDetecting and Remediating Log4Shell with Dynatracehttps://info.dynatrace.com/global-all-wc-dynatrace-for-log4shell-18339-od-fulfillment.html

Encore Presentation - we'll be back in early 2022, until then, here is one of our favorite recent episodes:To k8s or not – that should be the first question to answer before considering k8s. Granted – in many cases k8s is going to be the right choice but don’t just default to k8s because its hip or cool.

The rise of smart phones clearly created a new demand for “instant gratification” when it comes to interacting with online services through web sites or apps. To ensure services are available at any point in time without any interruption or delay it requires performance engineers to automate performance and scalability engineering into the development processes.In this episode we invited Mike Kobush, Performance Engineer at NAIC, to hear how he found his way in quality engineering and later on got hooked on performance. He walks us through current performance challenges as his organization is moving to the cloud. Mike also discusses why he is embracing automation as it makes him more desirable as an employee. He shares his goals and motivations such as: Learning something new every day!Tune in and get inspired by Mike. And remember: it always pays off to spend the extra time with somebody – even if it’s a Sunday afternoon in sunny San Diego!Show Links:Mike on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kobush

What are good business level objectives (BLOs) besides conversion rates? Who is responsible for defining them? Who needs to report and who is held accountable?We invited John Kelly, Sales Engineer at Dynatrace, to answer those and even more questions. John – aka Tech Shady - has been helping our customers over the past years to implement business level reporting for their critical applications. It was exciting to hear that there is much more than your classical availability or conversion rate business metrics. The one we think is really exciting is Engagement Rate. So – tune in and learn for yourselfShow links:John Kelly on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kelly-b22b992/John Kelly on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/JohnKelly17

Java developers love using Spring. But running high performing and scaling Java apps in production takes a little bit more than just compiling your code.In this episode we have Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh who has been working with Java for 26 years. In the past 25 years Asir (@asirselvasingh) helped Microsoft provide services to their developer community that make it easier to deploy, run and operate Java based applications at scale – nowadays on the Azure Spring Cloud offering.Listen in and learn more about observability when deploying apps on the Azure Cloud, which performance and scaling aspects you have to consider and get a look behind the scenes on how your packaged java app magically becomes available across the globe.Show Links:Asir on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/asir-architect-javaonazure/Asir on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/asirselvasinghMonitoring Spring Boot Apps with Dynatracehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/spring-cloud/how-to-dynatrace-one-agent-monitorObservability on Azure Spring Cl

If there is one thing you take away from this episode then the answer to “Why we should refrain from Reply All on company wide emails”. Jokes aside – as security and performance are not always funny!In this special anniversary episode we have Mark Tomlinson, System Performance Specialist, talking about the considerations and trade-offs between performance and security. We learn about performance vulnerabilities and why it is important to factor in the additional overhead each layer of security adds to your application stack. It's always a pleasure having Mark on the show – whether it was in the past, present or will be in the future.If you want to learn more from Mark on the topic of performance make sure to check out PerfBytes that has inspired us to launch PurePerformance.Show Links:Mark Tomlinson on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mtomlins/PerfByteshttps://www.perfbytes.com/

Optimizing or debugging database calls has to become as easy as optimizing your application code based on logs, metrics or traces your observability platform provides to developers. It has to be doable by the development and DevOps teams who are becoming more end-2-end responsible which includes new database services that are running in some managed cloud service.In this episode we hear from Nimesh Bhagat, Product Manager at Google, how modern database observability supports development and DevOps teams to better understand, optimize and operate their end-2-end service flow. A great project Nimesh has been working on is sqlcommenter which uses OpenTelemetry to continue distributed traces started in the application into the internals of the database engine.If you want to learn more check out the sqlcommenter documentation or the Google Podcast on Cloud SQL Insights.Show LinksNimesh on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nimesh-bhagat-b062354/SQLCommenterhttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/sqlcomme

If you need to learn how Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, FluentD, FluentBit .. help you with your observability requirements in the cloud native and non-cloud native space but you don’t have hours or days to dig into the details yourself then you have a new place to go to get educated within 20-30 minutes: Is it Observable is a new educational YouTube channel by Henrik Rexed, Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace.In this episode we have Henrik explain the motivation of creating Is it Observable, how to best use the videos and the tutorials on GitHub to educate yourself and gave a glance on upcoming episodes that will also include guests from various tool and platform vendors.Make sure to subscribe to his channel, check out the tutorials on GitHub and give him feedback on twitter (@hrexed) or LinkedInShow LinksIs It Observable YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRiin4u8YZGlVQRZp7qOOawHenrik Rexed on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/hrexed/Is It Observable Github Repohttps://github.com/isItObserv

Tuning the JVM GC to reduce garbage collection time will speed up application performance. If you agree with that statement then I encourage you to listen to this episode where I have Stefano Doni, CTO at Akamas, walk us through 4 Java Tuning Facts & Myths. He is going into details why even in 2021 with great improvements in the JVM it is still important to optimize the JVM specific to the environment, workload and application behavior. If you want some visuals try to catch his presentation from this years Performance Summit called “How AI optimization will debunk 4 long standing Java tuning myths”To follow up with Stefano check out their resources such as their tutorials on explore.akamas.io, check out their blog posts or videos on their new website akamas.io or follow them on twitter @akamaslabsLinks from the Show:Stefano on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanodoni/YouTube: How AI optimization will debunk 4 long-standing Java tuning mythshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VvaxATyYsAAkamas Tutorials

Understanding the secret behind the turbo button on his first 486 PC motivated our guest to study computer science. That decision started a journey making him constantly learn new technology ranging from coding languages, operational tasks as well as a focusing on improving developer experiences and boosting developer productivityListen in and hear from Michael Friedrich (@dnsmichi), The Ops in Dev Evangelist at GitLab, on why it is important to enable developers to design and develop code that makes it easier for DevOps and SREs to operate and automate. “The biggest challenge is code that breaks production but where there is no clear evidence for DevOps & SREs about the root cause”Make sure to join Michael’s #EveryCanContribute and follow his advocacy such as DockerCon 2021 on From Infrastructure as Code to Cloud Native Deployments in 5 MinutesLinks from show:Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dnsmichi/Twitterhttps://twitter.com/dnsmichiEveryone Can Contributehttps://everyonecancontribute.com/From Infra

“Because 9 out of 10 load testing projects fail due to ignorance and outdated thinking about load testing!”. That was the answer Leandro Melendez, aka Señor Performo, gave us when asking him why the world needs yet another book about load testing.In too many projects Leandro has to remind and educate decision makers and practitioner’s about load testing best practices, how to ask the right questions and how to approach a project from start to finish. His book “The hitchhiking guide to load testing projects” is a fun and edu-taining read for people that are new to the trade as well as seasoned performance engineers.For more content from Senor Performo check out his PerfBytes Espanol Podcast, his Spanish YouTube channel and all the performance engineering presentations he has been given over the years.https://www.srperf.com/podcast/https://www.srperf.com/el-youtube-channel/https://www.srperf.com/presenter/Pre-order the book herehttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C4ZT1LB

Building products that people want to use and activating users to try out new capabilities has to be the ultimate goal of every product manager. User and usage data is the enabler to make the right decisions. But data doesn’t come for free – and making the right decisions is something that data alone doesn’t guaranteeListen in and learn from Manav Chugh, product enthusiast, medium blogger and organizer of ProductTank Linz, what inspired him to choose the path from Zero to Data-Driven Product Manager. In our conversation we cover how to capture what data, the importance of data privacy, what we can learn from companies that do data-driven design well and why he loves organizations such as www.ecosia.org.Links from show:Manav on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/manavchugh/Manav's Medium Bloghttps://manav77-chugh.medium.com/ProductTank Linzhttps://www.mindtheproduct.com/producttank/linzEcosia Search Enginehttps://www.ecosia.org/

Like many frontend developers, Sergey Chernyshev was inspired in the late 2000 by Steve Souders to contribute to and grow the web performance community. Not only did he launch the Meed4SPEEDs as part of the New York Web Performance Meetup. He also worked for meetup.com helping them to improve web performance and user experience. Over the past years Sergey contributed to many projects such as WebPageTest.org, UX Capture Library, Jamstack and more.Tune in to this episode, learn what has and what hasn’t changed in the quest for better user experience. Get a quick start on Core Web Vitals and current challenges. Most important: get inspired to contribute back to this community.Llinks we discussed during the podcast are here:Sergy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergeychernyshev/Steve Souders Page: https://stevesouders.com/NY Web Performance Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Web-Performance-NY/WebPageTest: https://www.webpagetest.org/Github UX Capture: https://github.com/ux-capture/ux-captureJamstack: https:/

In his SLOConf talk Production load testing as a guardrail for SLOs and in his blog Production Load Testing, Hassy Veldstra, founder of artillery.io makes the case for load testing in production. It helped him in various organizations to establish SLOs (Service Level Objectives) and change the way engineers think about performance. He got inspired by Building Evolutionary Architectures which introduces the concept of performance as a fitness function.Tune in into our conversation, hear our arguments pro and contra load testing in the various environments and learn why in the end we agreed on the fact that SLOs – while nothing really new – are a great chance to re-define performance engineering.Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/hveldstra/SLOconf: Production load testing as a guardrail for SLOs - by Hassy Veldstrahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20K1mJB6tkBlog: Load testing. In production.http://veldstra.org/production-load-testing/Artillery Websitehttps://artillery.io/Book: Building Evolutionary Architecture

How do you convince an organization that just went through a 2 year DevOps transformation to continue the journey by applying SRE practices? What is SRE anyway? What are good SLOs? And how do you get development teams to take responsibility for their code in production?Bart Enkelaar, Lead Site Reliability Engineer at bol.com, not only got their organization to apply SRE practices, define good SLOs and got dev teams to rotate on-call duties. He also followed the advice of Margaret, Chief Platform Officer, to bring his personal passion to the job. This led to inspiring and educating the community about SRE and SLO through music. To see what I mean check out Barts The Game of SLOs – a three part reliability musical from SLOConf or his funny tech conversations at Friendly Tech Chats.Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-enkelaar-02242710/Margaret, Chief Platform Officer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy1gUEhbnBMGame of SLOs: A 3 part reliability musical - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y53Pho93i-kFriend

While some think about the late Austrian musician, Dan POP and the CNCF community thinks about modern security when it comes to Falco.Listen in and hear directly from Dan (@danpopnyc) who, besides doing many things in the CNCF community, also hosts POPCAST where he started connecting technology leaders during the last year. In the podcast you learn a lot about security, the power of eBPF and how Falco aims to contribute to runtime security like k8s contributed to distributed computing.Here the additional links we brought up during the conversation:Dan on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/danpapandrea/Dan on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/danpopnycPopcast Podcasthttps://github.com/danpopSD/popcastCyber Defenders Career Guide by Alyssa Millerhttps://www.manning.com/books/cyber-defenders-career-guideCloud Native TVhttps://www.twitch.tv/cloudnativefdnCNCF Tag Securityhttps://github.com/cncf/tag-securityFalco Tools, Frameworks & Articleshttps://github.com/developer-guy/awesome-falcoFalco Bloghttps://www.cncf.io/

Wonder what you learn when building k8s from scratch for a large enterprise? Wonder what you learn when automating delivery by connecting your different DevOps tools together?Nana Janashia runs one of the most successful technical YouTube channels called TechWorld with Nana where she covers topics ranging from containers, docker, k8s, cloud native and DevOps. She basically takes her lessons learned and explains technologies and concept in a very easy way especially for folks that want to get started with.In this episode we focus a lot on DevOps, what the right trades of a DevOps engineer are and how to get started. Thanks Nana for your time and all the additional resources we talked about during the episode that are listed below:DevOps Bootcamp: https://www.techworld-with-nana.com/devops-bootcampDevOps Roadmaps for Humans with Bret Fisher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXf2c76KAyADevOps Roadmap: https://roadmap.sh/devopsLinkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nana-janashia/TechWorld with Nana YouTube

Have you ever thought about reorganizing data allocation based on production telemetry data? Have you ever thought about shifting compiler budgets to parts of your code that is heavily executed based on profiling information captured from your real end users? Whether the answer is yes or no you will be fascinated by Taras Tsugrii, Software Engineer at Facebook, who is sharing his experience on optimizing everything from compilers, to databases, distributed systems or delivery pipelines.If you want more after listening to this episode check out his recent talk at Neotys PAC titled “Old pattern powering modern tech”, subscribe to his substack newsletter, his hashnode blog, or the conference recordings of Performance Summit and Scaling Continuous Delivery.https://www.linkedin.com/in/taras-tsugrii-8117a313/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itOCQvk_LAshttps://softwarebits.substack.com/https://softwarebits.hashnode.dev/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt50fEvgrEuN9fvya8ujVzAhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWf9HxiBud