Best Dotan Horovits Podcasts (2025)

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CNCF Ambassadors Share the Best of KubeCon EU 2025 - OpenObservability Talks S5E11 1:02:54

12d ago1:02:54

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KubeCon Europe 2025 in London has wrapped up, and we’re bringing you all the highlights, trends, and behind-the-scenes insights straight from the show floor! In this special recap episode, I’m joined by two CNCF Ambassadors and community powerhouses: Kasper Borg Nissen, the Co-Chair of this KubeCon as well as of the KubeCon 2024 editions, and a Dev…

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Scaling Runbook Automation Across Enterprise 13:28

24d ago13:28

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Additional Resources Watch Andy session at PagerDuty on Tour PagerDuty On Tour PagerDuty Home Page PagerDuty Commons Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Daniel Afonso

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From Legacy to AI-Powered Digital Operations With Andrew White 13:28

1M ago13:28

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Additional Resources Watch Andrew session at PagerDuty on Tour PagerDuty On Tour PagerDuty Home Page PagerDuty Commons Checkout.com Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Daniel Afonso

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Observability for Mobile with OpenTelemetry - OpenObservability Talks S5E10 1:03:02

1M ago1:03:02

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Observability into mobile native applications presents unique challenges, from capturing real user interactions to dealing with network constraints and battery efficiency. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, we explore the special characteristics of client-side telemetry, and how OpenTelemetry helps generate mobile client telemetry for real…

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Episode 52: Patrick Broderick, Consulting Forester and Founder @ Eastside Forestry 1:14:45

1M ago1:14:45

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Welcome to episode 52 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Patrick Broderick, Consulting Forester and Founder @ Eastside Forestry. In this episode, Patrick and JD discuss passion vs. profit, why our forests need a guiding hand, and how both sides of the political aisle are thinking about conservation all wrong. For educational resources …

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Melting Servers, Disaster Recovery and AI Agents With Laura Morgan 20:35

2M ago20:35

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Additional Resources Watch Laura session at PagerDuty on Tour PagerDuty On Tour PagerDuty Home Page PagerDuty Commons Backstage Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Daniel Afonso

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The Dark Side of Open Source With Dotan Horovits. 33:51

2M ago33:51

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Additional Resources Dark Side of Open Source: The Community Strikes Back Open Observability Talks podcast What is Copyleft? Open Source Summit, a Linux Foundation event Vim After Bram: A Core Maintainer on How They’ve Kept it Going State of Open Con CNCF - The Cloud Native Computing Foundation PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Tran…

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Shopify’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability - OpenObservability Talks S5E09 1:00:24

2M ago1:00:24

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Shopify operates at massive scale, running thousands of services and processing billions of events per second. To tackle the challenges of observability at this scale, they built Observe—an in-house observability stack that makes use of open-source tools and specifications. In fact, they replaced an older vendors-based system, in an awe-inspiring m…

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Open Source AI: Perspectives from the OSI - OpenObservability Talks S5E08 1:01:06

3M ago1:01:06

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We all know pretty well what open source means and what AI means. But what does open source AI mean? Is there even such a thing? Join us for an intriguing episode as we host Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI has been the steward of the Open Source Definition for over two decades, and has recently laun…

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End-of-Year Observability Retrospective with Charity Majors - OpenObservability Talks S5E07 1:01:41

5M ago1:01:41

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In this special year-end episode of OpenObservability Talks, we are thrilled to host Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, for an insightful conversation on the state of observability. Charity and our host Horovits recently delivered keynotes at Open Source Observability Day, which sparked fascinating discussions on the evolution of open…

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2024 Wrap 21:25

5M ago21:25

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Additional Resources Join the new PagerDuty Commons Check out Laundry Duty with Ben Hutchison PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls, Kat Gaines, Xenda Amici, Miguel Lupi, Sid Verma, and Daniel Afonso

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Welcome Daniel! 15:34

5M ago15:34

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Additional Resources JNation Conference React Summit Conference React India Conference React Alicante Conference React Norway Conference Join the new PagerDuty Commons PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls and Daniel Afonso

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CNCF Ambassadors Share the Best of KubeCon 2024 - OpenObservability Talks S5E06 59:54

6M ago59:54

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Catch up on everything you missed at KubeCon North America 2024! Join us for a special recap that brings you closer to the action. This is a special episode in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the foundation behind KubeCon+CloudNativeCon and the cloud-native projects. Dotan Horovits, our host and a CNCF Ambassador, w…

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EBPF and the Observability Landscape With Shahar Azulay 27:18

6M ago27:18

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Additional Resources groundcover eBPF Open Telemetry Join PagerDuty’s new community, PagerDuty Commons PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls

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Jaeger V2 Unveiled: Powered by OpenTelemetry - OpenObservability Talks S5E05 1:03:01

6M ago1:03:01

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In this episode of OpenObservability Talks, Dotan Horovits sits down with Yuri Shkuro, the creator of Jaeger, to unveil the highly anticipated Jaeger V2. This major release introduces a new architecture with deep OpenTelemetry integration, which promises more flexibility, performance, extensibility and ease of use. Join us as Yuri shares insider de…

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Episode 51: Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador and OpenObservability Talks Podcast Host 43:54

7M ago43:54

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Welcome to episode 51 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador and OpenObservability Talks Podcast Host. This episode is part of our series with The Open Source Observability Day Conference, where we're giving conference speakers an opportunity to speak beyond their abstract. In this episode, Dotan and JD disc…

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Episode 50: Costa Tsaousis, Founder & CEO @ Netdata 37:08

7M ago37:08

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Welcome to episode 50 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Costa Tsaousis, Founder & CEO @ Netdata. This episode is part of our series with The Open Source Observability Day Conference, where we're giving conference speakers an opportunity to speak beyond their abstract. In this episode, Costa and JD discuss going viral on GitHub, observ…

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Welcome Sid! 12:11

7M ago12:11

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Additional Resources DevOps Vancouver Meetup October 29, 2024 Visit the new PagerDuty Commons community site! PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls and Sid Verma

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Prometheus 3.0 Unveiled: PromCon Highlights with Julius Volz - OpenObservability Talks S5E04 1:06:09

8M ago1:06:09

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PromCon, the flagship yearly event of the Prometheus community, is back in Berlin, and we’re here to bring you the highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem. And this year we’ve got some major news: Prometheus’s long-awaited major release, v3.0! Join us to hear all about the revamped user interface, about Remote Write 2.0, and about Prometheus’ goal…

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Episode 49: Cooper Quintin, Senior Staff Technologist @ The EFF 1:11:47

8M ago1:11:47

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Welcome to episode 49 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Cooper Quintin, Senior Staff Technologist @ The EFF. Listen in as they discuss all things ALPR, the freedom of movement, the normalization of data breaches, and the need for restorative justice. For more information on The Atlas of Surveillance, or to donate to the EFF, please vi…

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Managing Vendor Incidents With Jeff Martens 32:57

8M ago32:57

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Additional Resources APM - Application Performance Monitoring at Wikipedia Jeff’s article, Cloud Dependencies Need to Stop F-ing Us When They Go Down at The New Stack Jeff’s first episode on the podcast, Reliability of Cloud Dependencies, from February 2023 PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by Rev…

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What’s New with OpenShift and the Observability Frontier - OpenObservability Talks S5E03 1:04:16

8M ago1:04:16

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OpenShift is an open-source container application platform that brings Docker and Kubernetes together to help organizations build, deploy, and manage containerized applications. Open source OpenShift (OKD) powers some of the largest Kubernetes clusters, such as in CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Join us for a fireside chat wit…

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August Book Club With Mark Peters: Confident DevOps 42:32

9M ago42:32

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Additional Resources Get your copy of Confident Devops use code KoganPage20 for 20% off Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework by Mik Kersten Open Telemetry Our episode on Internal Developer Platforms with Dave Bresci Agile Conversations by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick Grover’…

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Grafana With Brandy Smith 29:01

9M ago29:01

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Additional Resources Grafana Labs. Join the community Brandy’s post on monitoring AWS Fargate Get started with Grafana and Java Prometheus Network Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus Open Telemetry Raspberry Pi PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls

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July Book Club: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 36:27

9M ago36:27

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Additional Resources Get your copy of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir More on Larry Niven The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu Charles Stross Starship Troopers PagerDuty Home Page Come hang out with us in the Hangops Slack Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls

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Open Source: “More than a License” but Not Quite a Business Model with Dotan Horovits 35:12

10M ago35:12

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After several decades of use, should we consider open source software (OSS) a business model? In short: No! In this conversation, open source evangelist Javier Perez welcomes technology evangelist and CNCF ambassador Dotan Horovits to provide context for the biggest changes happening in OSS, discuss what a sustainable future looks like for open sou…

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WebAssembly: The Next Frontier in Cloud-Native Evolution - OpenObservability Talks S5E02 1:02:02

10M ago1:02:02

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Time to explore the next frontier in cloud-native evolution: WebAssembly (WASM). Moving beyond containers and Kubernetes, WASM bears the promise to revolutionize the cloud landscape with unparalleled performance, portability, and security. Can it actually deliver on this promise? We discussed this and more it in this episode. We delved into how WAS…

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Episode 48: Marc Nathan, Super Connector 1:09:52

10M ago1:09:52

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Welcome to Episode 48 of More Than a Refresh! Join JD as he sits down with Super Connector and T-Squared Founder, Marc Nathan, to discuss the value of a strong first impression, psychological profit, the role of culture fit in hiring, and why you don't hear a lot of honking in Texas.

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Redis is No Longer Open Source. Is Valkey the Successor? - OpenObservability Talks S5E01 1:00:25

11M ago1:00:25

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Redis is no longer open source. Just a few months ago, in March 2024, the project was relicensed, leaving its vast community confused. But the community did not give up, and started work to fork Redis to keep it open. In this episode, we delve into the Valkey project, a prominent fork of Redis, established under the Linux Foundation, which brought …

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June Book Club: Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow 26:03

11M ago26:03

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Additional Resources Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com Get your copy of Red Team Blues Learn more about Radical Candor by Kim Scott Elora mentions The Locked Tomb Series by Tamsyn Muir and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by Rev…

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Episode 47: Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder @ Coroot & Founder @ Percona with Nikolay Sivko, Founder and CEO @ Coroot 1:02:13

11M ago1:02:13

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Welcome to Episode 47 of More Than a Refresh! Join JD as he sits down with Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder @ Coroot & Founder @ Percona, and Nikolay Sivko, Founder and CEO @ Coroot. In this episode, the trio of founders talks about tending to databases vs. tending to applications, consuming vs. delivering information, and The 80-20 Rule.…

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FOSS in Flux: Redis Relicensing and the Future of Open Source: OpenObservability Talks S4E12 1:01:35

11M ago1:01:35

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In the past few years we’ve been witnessing tectonic shifts in the open source realm, with established projects taken off open source or otherwise turning to the dark side. On the other hand, we’ve seen active forks aiming to keep these projects open gaining momentum. What does it mean for the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement? Is this …

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May Book Club - Tidy First? by Kent Beck

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Additional Resources Get your copy of Tidy First? Join a future episode! https://bit.ly/PageItBookClub PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls

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When Will IT Security Escape the Cat-and-Mouse Game? with Sean Atkinson, CISO of CIS 34:01

12M ago34:01

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When Sean Atkinson says that “We’re on a trajectory to have the most vulnerabilities ever identified in a single year, starting this year,” take note: As Chief Information Security Officer for the Center for Internet Security, he knows what he’s talking about. He’s referring to the ever-increasing tide of weaknesses and flaws that undermine the sec…

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The Future of the Forge: Unpacking the Big (and Small) Changes 41:15

1y ago41:15

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It’s all good news, we promise! The Forge has always been the go-to spot for Puppet users to find, download, and update content and modules. On this episode, we're revealing a few of the exciting changes that are going to make the Forge even easier and more valuable for all Puppet users, like personalization, filters, and features to track module v…

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Techtonica With Michelle Glauser 25:53

1y ago25:53

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Additional Resources Techtonica Ada Developers Academy PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls

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April Book Club - Flow Engineering by Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis 39:54

1y ago39:54

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Additional Resources Learn more, join the newsletter and office hours at https://flowengineering.org/ Order Flow Engineering More on OODA If you’re not familiar with the parable of the blind men and the elephant Our prior episodes with Helen Beal on Value Stream Management and Dominica DeGrandis on Making Work Visible PagerDuty Home Page Episode ed…

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KubeCon Paris Highlights and AI Spotlight on K8sGPT - OpenObservability Talks S4E11 1:01:30

1y ago1:01:30

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KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris was the biggest event of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to date, with over 12k participants. Have you missed it? We've got you covered! Join not one but two CNCF Ambassadors as they explore the latest and greatest highlights from the event that every tech enthusiast is talking about. But that's not all! We…

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Wing's Take on Cloud Development With Elad Ben-Israel 38:01

1y ago38:01

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Additional Resources Winglang - A programming language for the cloud Winglang Playground Wing Cloud PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Tiago Barbosa

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We Surveyed ~500 People Doing Platform Engineering. Here’s What We Learned. 40:14

1y ago40:14

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The 2024 State of DevOps Report: The Evolution of Platform Engineering is live! In this episode, we’re taking you behind the scenes with the authors of the report and one of the people who helped run the survey. Download the 2024 report for free here! On this episode, join us as host Ben Ford, report authors Margaret Lee and David Sandilands, and p…

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Building Trust in Security Reporting With Breanne Boland 28:19

1y ago28:19

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Additional Resources A writeup of a talk by Breanne about doing transformative work in sometimes-reluctant orgs. A Diana Initiative talk by Breanne about becoming a security partner, and an accompanying Gusto blog post on the subject. Reinventing Cybersecurity, edited by Jasmine Henry, is free and has a chapter from Breanne about cultivating a posi…

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Episode 46: Elizabeth McCormick, Former US ARMY Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot & Current Inspirational & Motivational Speaker Specializing in Leadership 1:18:49

1y ago1:18:49

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Welcome to Episode 46 of More Than a Refresh! Join JD as he sits down with Elizabeth McCormick, a former US ARMY Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot turned Inspirational Speaker specializing in Leadership. In this episode, they explore the power of choice in dissatisfaction, the intricate relationship between confidence and self-worth, and the power of rhi…

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Charting New Territory: OpenTelemetry Embraces Profiling - OpenObservability Talks S4E10 1:06:45

1y ago1:06:45

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OpenTelemetry is expanding beyond the traditional “three pillars of observability” and introduces a groundbreaking addition to its signals - Continuous Profiling. The new Profiling Special Interest Group (SIG) that was formed to lead the topic has already made significant advancements, to be featured at KubeCon Europe. Join us in this special panel…

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March Book Club - Kill It With Fire by Marianne Bellotti 26:03

1y ago26:03

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Additional Resources Get your copy of Kill it with Fire https://www.bellotti.tech/ PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls

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SRE Journey at Adidas With Andreia Otto 22:46

1y ago22:46

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For a full transcript of this episode, click the “Display Transcript” button above. Additional Resources Adidas Adidas Engineering Blog PagerDuty Home Page Join the PagerDuty Community Episode transcribed by RevBy Tiago Barbosa

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Incident Response to Incident Management With Jeli 31:15

1y ago31:15

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Additional Resources Jeli.io Our episode on Psychological Safety with Tim Geraghty Learning From Incidents PagerDuty Home Page Learning from Incidents Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls

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Decoding .NET8: Unveiling Cloud-Native Observability - OpenObservability Talks S4E09 1:05:29

1y ago1:05:29

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The .NET programming language is taking cloud native deployment and observability seriously, and most notably with the recent announcement of .NET Aspire stack unveiled at the recent .NET Conf 2023. In this episode, we reviewed the open source maintainers’ journey to making .NET a "by default, out of the box observable platform", as ASP.NET Core cr…

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February Book Club: After the Gold Rush by Steve McConnell 37:47

1y ago37:47

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Additional Resources Want a copy of After the Gold Rush? Send us an email Join us on a future episode! bit.ly/PageItBookClub After The Gold Rush at Goodreads. More from Steve McConnell The Gang of Four: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Heim, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides The Agile Manifesto …

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Internal Developer Platforms With Dave Bresci 28:18

1y ago28:18

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For a full transcript of this episode, click the “Display Transcript” button above. Additional Resources PagerDuty Home Page Backstage.io PagerDuty plugin for Backstage Join the PagerDuty Community Episode transcribed by RevBy Mandi Walls and Tiago Barbosa

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Episode 45: Montana Low, Founder & CEO @ PostgresML 1:05:28

1y ago1:05:28

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Welcome to episode 45 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Montana Low, Founder and CEO @ PostgresML. Listen in as they discuss pragmatic perfectionism, why ML should happen in databases, and the difference between "hype beast" AI vs. "get shit done" AI.

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