MCPs (Model Context Protocol) are not that magic, but they enable magic things with Dana Harrison

PurePerformance

30:55

A secret field that summons lightning. A massive spiral that disappears into a salt lake. A celestial observatory carved into a volcano. Meet the wild—and sometimes explosive—world of land art, where artists craft masterpieces with dynamite and bulldozers. In our Season 2 premiere, guest Dylan Thuras, cofounder of Atlas Obscura, takes us off road and into the minds of the artists who literally reshaped parts of the Southwest. These works aren’t meant to be easy to reach—or to explain—but they just might change how you see the world. Land art you’ll visit in this episode: - Double Negative and City by Michael Heizer (Garden Valley, Nevada) - Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (Great Salt Lake, Utah) - Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt (Great Basin Desert, Utah) - Lightning Field by Walter De Maria (Catron County, New Mexico) - Roden Crater by James Turrell (Painted Desert, Arizona) Via Podcast is a production of AAA Mountain West Group.…

about a year ago 46:43

MP3•Episode home

MCPs (Model Context Protocol) is an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to the the systems where data lives. But you probably already knew that if you have followed the recent hype around this topic after Anthropic made their announcement end of 2024.
To learn more about that MCPs are not that magic, but enable "magic" new use cases to speed up efficiency of engineers we have invited Dana Harrison, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Telus. Dana goes into the use cases he and his team have been testing out over the past months to increase developer efficiency.
In our conversation we also talk about the difference between local and remote MCPs, the importance of keeping resiliance in mind as MCPs are connecting to many different API backends and how we can and should observe the interactions with MCPs.
Links we discussed
Antrohopic Blog: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol
Dana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danaharrisonsre/overlay/about-this-profile/

326 episodes

#Tech #PurePerformance

MCPs (Model Context Protocol) are not that magic, but they enable magic things with Dana Harrison

PurePerformance

18 subscribers

published about a year ago

MP3•Episode home

326 episodes

#Tech #PurePerformance

All episodes

1
Organizational Sustainability through Platform Engineering with Lesley Cordero 42:00

7 days ago42:00

42:00

As a leader that wants to optimize an organization you are bound to fail if you isolate social (culture and people) and technical (tools and process) changes. When we ask Lesley Cordero, Staff Engineer at The New York Times how to solve this dilemma she answers: "Platform Engineering, it can drive organizational sustainability by practicing sociotechnical principles that provide a community driven support system for application developers using our standardized shared platform architecture" Tune in to our latest episode and learn more about the importance of leadership to continuously keep up and balance the tension between "Developers" and "Operations", between "End User Experience" and "Developer Experience" and ultimately between "Culture and People and "Tools and Processes" Links we discussed Lesley's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleycordero/ GOTO Conference Talk => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-XrUONJ-o QCon 2025 Talk Details: https://qconlondon.com/presentation/apr2025/platform-engineering-practice-sociotechnical-excellence DevOpsCon 2024 Talk Details: https://devopscon.io/business-company-culture/platform-engineering-devops/…

1
Run Towards the Fire: Why we should love incidents with Lisa Karlin Curtis 46:47

21 days ago46:47

46:47

Do you plan for incidents? Do you have a time / cost budget for it in your sprint or quarterly planning? Do you have engineers that are "interruptible"? We discussed those and more questions with Lisa Karlin Curtis, Founding Engineer at incident.io who teaches us why we need to think differently about dealing with incidents! In our discussion we learn why modern incident management embraces more incidents that are publicly shared within an organization to foster learning. We learn about how to train more people to become incident responders, how to triage and categorize incidents, how to better plan for them and how to best report on them We also touch on AI - and how AI-generated code will eventually result in more Incidents which we should use as an opportunity to learn and improve our engineering process P.S: This was our 10th-anniversary podcast episode!! Here the links we discussed in the podcast: Lisa's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-karlin-curtis-a4563920/ Her talk at ELC Prague: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18536WBHBcPEppEeXXP7o5UQOX2XfWoGmfds2CHegHq4/edit?slide=id.g3434e0cba65_0_0#slide=id.g3434e0cba65_0_0 Incident Playbook: https://incident.io/guide…

1
MCPs (Model Context Protocol) are not that magic, but they enable magic things with Dana Harrison 46:43

5 weeks ago46:43

46:43

MCPs (Model Context Protocol) is an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to the the systems where data lives. But you probably already knew that if you have followed the recent hype around this topic after Anthropic made their announcement end of 2024. To learn more about that MCPs are not that magic, but enable "magic" new use cases to speed up efficiency of engineers we have invited Dana Harrison, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Telus. Dana goes into the use cases he and his team have been testing out over the past months to increase developer efficiency. In our conversation we also talk about the difference between local and remote MCPs, the importance of keeping resiliance in mind as MCPs are connecting to many different API backends and how we can and should observe the interactions with MCPs. Links we discussed Antrohopic Blog: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol Dana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danaharrisonsre/overlay/about-this-profile/…

1
The History & Power of Distributed Tracing with Christoph Neumueller & Thomas Rothschaedl 56:19

7 weeks ago56:19

56:19

So you think Distributed Tracing is the new thing? Well - its not! But its never been as exciting as today! In this episode we combine 50 years of Distributed Tracing experience across our guests and hosts. We invited Christoph Neumueller and Thomas Rothschaedl who have seen the early days of agent-based instrumentation, how global standards like the W3C Trace Context allowed tracing to connect large enterprise systems and how OpenTelemetry is commoditizing data collection across all tech stacks. Tune in and learn about the difference between spans and traces, why collecting the data is only part of the story, how to combat the challenge when dealing with too much data and how traces relate and connect to logs, metrics and events. Links we discussed YouTube with Christoph: LINK WILL FOLLOW ONCE VIDEO IS POSTED Christoph's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophneumueller/ Thomas's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rothschaedl/…

1
An Inside Look into Platform Engineering for Architects with the authors Max, Hilliary & Andi 59:14

9 weeks ago59:14

59:14

In the ever-changing IT world, creating content that stays relevant for long is hard. One of the objectives of "Platform Engineering for Architects: Crafting Modern Platforms as a Product" was to stay timeless by providing practical examples of use cases not necessarily tied to current technology trends. The book focuses on the importance of building a platform with a purpose, making the impact measurable, and ensuring the platform continuously evolves by continuously including the end users (the engineering teams) in the evolution of the platform. Tune in to this episode and hear from Max Körbächer (Founder of Liquid Reply), Hilliary Lipsig (Senior Principal SRE at RedHat), and Andi Grabner (Co-Host of PurePerformance) on what made them write a book on Platform Engineering and get some personal insights into what gets the authors excited about their respective topics. If you have a chance, meet Max, Hilliary, and Andi at KubeCon in London. They will present at Platform Engineering Day and do a book signing at KubeCrawl! Links we discussed: Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Platform-Engineering-Architects-Crafting-platforms-ebook/dp/B0DH5DJFTH Platform Engineering Day Session: https://colocatedeventseu2025.sched.com/event/1u5mX/platform-engineering-for-architects-crafting-platforms-as-a-product-max-korbacher-liquid-reply-hilliary-lipsig-red-hat Hilliary Lipsig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilliary-lipsig-a5935245/ Max Körbächer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkoerbaecher/ Andi Grabner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grabnerandi/…

1
How CERN analyzed 1 PetaByte per second using K8s with Ricardo Rocha 38:31

11 weeks ago38:31

38:31

One PetaByte is the equivalent of 11000 4k movies. And CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates this every single second. Only a fraction of this data (~1 GB/s) is stored and analyzed using a multicluster batch job dispatcher with Kueue running on Kubernetes. In this episode we have Ricardo Rocha, Platform Engineering Lead at CERN and CNCF Advocate, explaining why after 20 years at CERN he is still excited about the work he and his colleagues at CERN are doing. To kick things off we learn about the impact that the CNCF has on the scientific community, how to best balance an implementation of that scale between "easy of use" vs "optimized for throughput". Tune in and learn about custom hardware being built 20 years ago and how the advent of the latest chip generation has impacted the evolution of data scientists around the globe Links we discussed Ricardo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-rocha-739aa718/ KubeCon SLC Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMmskWIlktA&list=PLj6h78yzYM2Pw4mRw4S-1p_xLARMqPkA7&index=5 Kueue CNCF Project: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/10/04/introducing-kueue/…

1
Why Compliance is Important and not Boring with Michiel de Lepper 50:40

13 weeks ago50:40

50:40

The word "Compliance" reminds many about mandatory training or audits. Two things not everyone gets excited about! Tune in and meet Michiel de Lepper who has spent most of his career in Security and Compliance. He gives us a different perspective on the importance of compliance, why it exists, how it intertwines with security and threat detection, what it has to do with security posture management and why he thinks its one of the most exciting things in IT! Links we discussed: Michiel's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madelepper/ Blog posts on security and compliance: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/dynatrace-for-executives-security-compliance/ https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/manage-compliance-and-resilience-at-scale-with-dynatrace/ https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/dynatrace-kspm-transforming-kubernetes-security-and-compliance/…

1
What's next for Feature Flagging and OpenFeature with Ben Rometsch 50:36

15 weeks ago50:36

50:36

Feature Flagging - some may call them "glorified if-statements" - has been a development practice for decades. But have we reached a stage where organizations are doing "Feature Flag-Driven Development?". After all it took years to establish a test-driven development culture despite having great tools and frameworks available! To learn more we invited Ben Rometsch, Co-Founder of Flagsmith, to chat about the history, state and future of Feature Flagging. He is giving us an update on where the market is heading, how the CNCF project OpenFeature and its community is driving best practices, what the role of AI might be and what he thinks might be next! Couple of links we discussed during the episode: Ben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrometsch/ YouTube Video on Observability & Feature Flagging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZakh1_oEL8 OpenFeature: https://openfeature.dev/…

1
Observability Predictions 2025 Under the Covers with Bernd Greifeneder 47:31

17 weeks ago47:31

47:31

To predict the future, it's important to know the past. And that is true for Bernd Greifeneder, Founder and CTO of Dynatrace, who has been driving innovation in the observability and security since he founded Dynatrace 20 years ago! Bernd agreed to sit down, look behind the covers and answer the open questions that people posted on his LinkedIn in response to his recent observability prediction blog. Tune in and learn about Bernd's though on the evaluation from reactive to preventive operations, who is behind the convergence of observability & security, why observability can help those that have serious intentions for sustainability and how observability becomes mandatory and indispensable for AI-driven services. We mentioned a lot of links in todays session. Here they are: Our podcast from 9 years ago: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/015-leading-the-apm-market-from-enterprise-into-cloud-native--9607734 Bernds LinkedIn Post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7275101213237354497/ Predictions Blog: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/observability-predictions-for-2025/ K8s Predictive Scaling Lab: https://github.com/Dynatrace/obslab-predictive-kubernetes-scaling Security Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICUwRy4JFTk Carbon Impact App: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Px0BB1U1yk AI & LLM Observability Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2KuWFeZyY…

1
From Infra to Services to Happy End Users: The role of SLOs at Uber with Vishnu Acharya 50:59

19 weeks ago50:59

50:59

eBay, Yahoo, Netflix and then 10+ years at Uber. In this episode we sit down with Vishnu Acharya, Head of Network Infrastructure EMEA and Platform Engineering at Uber. Vishnu shares how Uber has scaled over the years to about 4000 engineers and how his team makes sure that infrastructure and platform engineering scales with the growing company and the growing demand on their digital services. Tune in and learn about how Vishnu thinks about SLOs across all layers of the stack, how they manage to get better insights with their cloud providers and why its important to have an end-to-end understanding of the most critical end user journeys. Links we discussed: Conference talk at Observability & SRE Summit: https://www.iqpc.com/events-observability-sre-summit/speakers/vishnu-acharya Vishnu's LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishnuacharya/ Uber Engineering Blog: https://www.uber.com/blog/engineering/…

1
The Road to OpenTelemetry Adoption at Booking with Anton Timofieiev 53:45

21 weeks ago53:45

53:45

For the past 10 years Anton has been working at Booking.com - one of the leading digital travel companies based out of Amsterdam. The journey that started as System Administrator has led Anton to be an Engineering Manager for Site Reliability where over the past 3 years he led the rollout and adoption of OpenTelemetry as the standard for getting observability into new cloud native deployments. Tune in and learn how Anton saw R&D grow from 300 to 2000, why they replaced their home-grown Perl-based Observability Framework with OpenTelemetry, how they tackle adoption challenges and how they extend and contribute back to the open source community Links we discussed: Anton's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antontimofieiev/ Observability & SRE Summit: https://www.iqpc.com/events-observability-sre-summit/speakers/anton-timofieiev OpenTelemetry: https://opentelemetry.io/…

1
Why Security and Compliance must not be a showstopper for SaaS with Milan Steskal 52:00

23 weeks ago52:00

52:00

Most services are moving to SaaS - whether it’s email, collaboration, customer relations, or finance. But not everyone can go to SaaS - or at least that’s the initial reaction when navigating certain industries’ rules and regulations. Milan Steskal - who worked in healthcare for many years - is now helping organizations ask the right questions and find the best solutions as they evaluate their options to move their observability data to SaaS. Tune in and learn about the questions to ask vendors and your internal security, privacy, and compliance teams. Milan also walks us through the capabilities SaaS vendors such as Dynatrace have put in place to protect data sent to the cloud so that it stays safe and only accessible to those needing access. Links discussed today: Milans LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milansteskal/ Dynatrace Trust Center: https://www.dynatrace.com/company/trust-center/ Blogs on Trust: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/tag/trust-center/…

1
Every Byte Counts: Web Performance Flashback with Andreas Taranetz 51:28

25 weeks ago51:28

51:28

Andreas Taranetz is a software engineer and lecturer at the University of Vienna. He creates a lot of educational content around Web Performance Optimization. For the past seven years, he has also operated Wahlkabine, Austria's top website, for matching one's political views with the parties that are up for election. This episode was an amazing flashback - reminding us about the time when Steve Souders - the "godfather" of Web Performance Optimization - educated web developers about optimizing CSS, JavaScript, and server-side roundtrips. Tune in and learn why Web Performance is still such an important topic, how it relates to sustainability, why you should cache on every layer, and what the Static Site Paradox really is! Links we discussed in the episode: Andreas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-taranetz/ Personal Website: https://andreas.taranetz.com/ We Are Developers Talk: https://www.youtube.com/live/KRemC82gsBk Wahlkabine: https://wahlkabine.at/ Steve Souders: https://stevesouders.com/…

1
The Security and Resiliency Challenges of Cloud Native Authorization with Alex Olivier 52:35

27 weeks ago52:35

52:35

Authentication (validating who you claim to be) and Authorization (enforcing what you are allowed to do) are critical in modern software development. While authentication seems to be a solved problem, modern software development faces many challenges with secure, fast, and resilient authorization mechanisms. To learn more about those challenges, we invited Alex Olivier , Co-Founder and CPO at Cerbos, an Open Source Scalable Authorization Solution . Alex shared insights on attribute-based vs. role-based access Control, the difference between stateful and stateless authorization implementations, why Broken Access Control is in the OWASP Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities, and how to observe the authorization solution for performance, security, and auditing purposes. Links we discussed during the episode: Alex's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexolivier/ Cerbos on GitHub: https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos OWASP Broken Access Control: https://owasp.org/www-community/Broken_Access_Control…

1
Open Source: Why its the Best Thing that happened to IT with Marcio Lena 1:04:40

29 weeks ago1:04:40

1:04:40

Open Source is the Best Thing that happened to IT"! Powerful words from Marcio Lena who has been using and contributing back to open source for the past 20+ years. Besides being a vivid advocate for open source, Marcio also knows the concerns of large enterprises when picking open source projects. Tune in and follow our discussion about how to identify a healthy open-source project, how to balance between vendor and community lock-in, the power of open standards such as OpenTelemetry, open source business models as well as that contributing to open source is not limited to code but includes documentation, education and advocacy as well! Links we discussed: Marcio's LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcio-lena/ CNCF DevStats: https://devstats.cncf.io/ Linux Foundation Events: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/ CNCF Ambassadors: https://www.cncf.io/people/ambassadors/…

PurePerformance

1
Why GitOps is not Git plus Automation for Ops with Roberth Strand 55:48

1 year ago55:48

55:48

Whether 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 Pushing from Pipelines, how Progressive Delivery or Auto-Scaling fits into declaring everything in Git, what OpenGItOps is and why this podcast will help you get your GitOps certification (coming soon) As we had a lot to talk we also touched on Platform Engineering and various other topics Here are all the links we discussed: Alexis GitOps Blog Post: https://medium.com/weaveworks/what-is-gitops-really-e77329f23416 OpenGitOps: https://opengitops.dev/ Flux Image Reflector: https://fluxcd.io/flux/components/image/ CNCF White Paper on Platform Engineering: https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platforms/ Platform Engineering Maturity Model: https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platform-eng-maturity-model/ Platform Engineering Working Group as part of TAG App Delivery: https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/wgs/platforms/…

PurePerformance

1
What makes GitOps Enterprise Ready with Christian Hernandez 52:34

1 year ago52:34

52:34

Can 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 which aims to provide open-source standard and best practices to implementing GitOps. We closed the session with some advice around Application Dependency Management, External Secrets Operator and choosing the right Git Repo Structure. Here are some of the links we discussed: OpenGitOps: https://opengitops.dev/ ArgoCD: https://argoproj.github.io/cd/ Kargo: https://github.com/akuity/kargo ArgoCon: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/argocon/ GitOpsCon: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/gitopscon-north-america/…

PurePerformance

1
Open Mainframe, Zowe, OpenTelemetry: Modernizing the Mainframe with Jessielaine Punongbayan 44:08

1 year ago44:08

44:08

While 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 projects and communities she is involved in such as Open Mainframe or Zowe that make it easy to connect the Mainframe with the modern tooling of today's development environments. Jelly shares her stories about the role of good observability, how it connects the distributed and the mainframe world and how it enables development teams to build more efficient systems. And what about AI? Well - you have to tune in and listen to the end! Here the links discussed in the episode Writing a COBOL program using VSCode: https://medium.com/modern-mainframe/beginners-guide-cobol-made-easy-introduction-ecf2f611ac76 Using CircleCI to perform automation in Mainframe: https://medium.com/modern-mainframe/beginners-guide-cobol-made-easy-leveraging-open-source-tools-eb4f8dcd7a98 Using OpenTelemetry to capture Mainframe Insights: https://medium.com/@jessielaine.punongbayan/re-imagining-mainframe-insights-through-open-source-tooling-79dd4c937114 Dynatrace support for Mainframe: https://www.dynatrace.com/technologies/mainframe-monitoring/…

PurePerformance

1
The 201 Milestone Episode on Automation, AI, CoPilot and more with Mark Tomlinson 58:28

1 year ago58:28

58:28

201 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 creating code and scripts but also lead to new ways of automation. We also give a heads-up (or rather a recap) of what Mark will be presenting on at Perform 2024. To learn more about and from Mark follow him on the various social media channels: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtomlins/ Performacology: https://performacology.com/…

PurePerformance

1
Optimizing Cloud Native Power Consumption using Kepler with Marcelo Amaral 47:34

1 year ago47:34

47:34

Marcelo 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 into details about how Kepler works and also provides practical advice for any developer to keep energy consumption in mind when making architectural and coding decisions. To learn more about Kepler and the episode today check out: LinkedIn from Marcelo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcamaral/ CNCF Blogpost on Kepler: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/10/11/exploring-keplers-potentials-unveiling-cloud-application-power-consumption/ Kepler GitHub Repo: https://github.com/sustainable-computing-io/kepler…

PurePerformance

1
OpenLLMetry - Observing the Quality of LLMs with Nir Gazit 50:32

1 year ago50:32

50:32

Its 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 engineers need to look into quality attributes such as accuracy, readability or grammatical correctness. Nir introduces us to OpenLLMetry - a set of Open Source extensions built on top of OpenTelemetry providing automated observability into the usage of LLMs for developers to better understand how to optimize the usage of LLMs. His advice to every developer is to start measuring the quality of your LLMs on Day 1 and continuously evaluate as you change your model, the prompt and the way you interact with your LLM stack! If you have more questions about LLM Observability check out the following links: OpenLLMetry GitHub Page: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry Traceloop Website: https://www.traceloop.com/ OpenLLMetry Documentation: https://traceloop.com/docs/openllmetry…

PurePerformance

1
Why Developers have different Observability Requirements with Liran Haimovitch 49:49

1 year ago49:49

49:49

After 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 the fly. To learn more about the observability requirements of developers we invited Liran Haimovitch , CTO at Rookout and now part of Dynatrace, who has spent the last 7 years solving the challenging problems that developers face day and night. Tune in and learn about what non-breaking breakpoints are, how it is possible to "debug in production" without impacting running code and how we can make developers lives easier even though we push so many things "to the left"…

PurePerformance

1
Mobile, AI, LLMs, Observability & Resiliency - Key Topics for Banks in Hungary with Adam Gajdi 11:21

1 year ago11:21

11:21

I 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. Furthermore, Adam enlightened me with the fact that Hungarian banks are mandated to conduct chaos tests to proof that their systems are resilient in case of data center outages. I was obviously also curious about how AI, LLMs and other technologies are adopted in their sector. Tune in to learn more…

PurePerformance

1
Recap KubeCon 2023 NA, State of Platform Engineering and more with Andi Grabner 28:21

1 year ago28:21

28:21

Besides 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…

PurePerformance

1
Observability, Cybersecurity, DevOps & SRE - Learning from the Public Sector with Willie Hicks 46:28

1 year ago46:28

46:28

Zero-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 Willie has been working with over the past decade. In our conversation we explore the differences between commercial and government as it comes to ROI or how they see competition as a driving motivator. To learn more about the public sector tune into the Tech Transformers podcast that Willie is co-hosting with his colleague Carolyn Ford.…

PurePerformance

1
Blue turns Green: Sustainable IT is everyone's business with Mario-Leander Reimer 51:04

2 years ago51:04

51:04

4% 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 into such as Kepler, kube-green, Karpenter or Carbon Aware Multi-Cluster Schedulers. Here are the links we discussed: Blue turns Green presentation: https://speakerdeck.com/lreimer/blue-turns-green-approaches-and-technologies-for-sustainable-k8s-clusters-number-kcdmunich?slide=5 Kepler Project: https://kepler.gl/ kube-green: https://kube-green.dev/ CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability: https://github.com/cncf/tag-env-sustainability Sustainability Week: https://tag-env-sustainability.cncf.io/cloud-native-sustainability-week/…

PurePerformance

1
Don't burst in Flames: 20 years of Performance Engineering with Martin Spier 49:43

2 years ago49:43

49:43

Martin 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 performance and observability stories from Martin, about his early days in Brazil, his time at Expedia and Netflix and about his current role as VP of Engineering at PicPay - one of the hottest fin techs in Brazil. More links we discussed: Performance Summit talk about FlameCommander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L58GrWcrD00 CMG Impact talk on Real User Monitoring at Netflix: https://www.cmg.org/2019/04/impact-2019-real-user-performance-monitoring-at-netflix-scale/ Learn more about Vector: https://netflixtechblog.com/extending-vector-with-ebpf-to-inspect-host-and-container-performance-5da3af4c584b Martin's GitHub: https://github.com/spiermar Connect with him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinspier/…

PurePerformance

1
Inside Africa - Cloud Native Observability Journeys with Kelvin Klein 17:08

2 years ago17:08

17:08

Africa 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 South Africa.…

PurePerformance

1
The Future of Ops is Sleep with Amit Chiba from Nedbank 10:59

2 years ago10:59

10:59

I 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 observability, how they tackle cloud costs and why he thinks that the future of IT Ops is more Sleep!…

PurePerformance

1
Developer Productivity Engineering: Its' more than buying faster hardware with Trisha Gee 44:29

2 years ago44:29