What's next for Feature Flagging and OpenFeature with Ben Rometsch

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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/

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DX Core 4 Applied - Measuring Developer Productivity with Dušan Katona 49:48

17 days ago49:48

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"How do you measure the impact you have with your platform engineering initiative?" is a question you should be able to answer. To show improvement you must first need to know what the status quo is. And this is where frameworks such as DX Core 4 come in. Never heard about it? Then tune into this episode where we have Dušan Katona, Sr Director of Platform Engineering at Ataccama, who is a big fan of the DX Core Four Metrics and who has just applied it in his current role to optimize developer experience. Dušan explains the details behind those 4 Core metrics: Speed, Effectiveness, Quality and Impact. He also shares how improving those metrics by a single point results in the equivalent of 10 hours saved per developer per year. And here the relevant links we discussed today Dusan's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dusankatona/ DX Core 4 Blog: https://getdx.com/research/measuring-developer-productivity-with-the-dx-core-4/ Marian's JIRA Analytics Open Source Project: https://github.com/marian-kamenistak/jira-lead-cycle-time-duration-extractor…

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In the AI Age being Smart is not enough for Tech Leadership with Marian Kamenistak 39:52

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"15 years ago it was enough to be smart - going forward its not a differentiator - being smart will just make you average!". But what is it? What makes great leaders worth following and how do they achieve tripling their value while others keep waiting for their 5% raise? 4 years ago Marian Kamenistak launched the Engineering Leadership Community out of Prague, Czech Republic. Feeding from his experience in the Silicon Valley this community has grown to 1500 members with the mission to create "Leaders worth following". Tune in and hear from Marian on how to think and talk about value impact vs being held up with trying to achieve technical perfection. Why its important to build a network around you, the difference between mentorship and management as well as how to proof the value to your leadership that you bring to the organization! Links we discussed today Marian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariankamenistak/ Engineering Leadership Conference: https://www.elc-conference.io/ Engineering Leadership Community: https://www.engineeringleaders.io/ The Leadership Pipeline Book: https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Pipeline-Build-Powered-Company/dp/0470894563…

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The Research Behind the AI and Observability Innovation with Otmar Ertl and Martin Flechl 50:59

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Scientific research is the foundation of many innovative solutions in any field. Did you know that Dynatrace runs its own Research Lab within the Campus of the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria - just 2 kilometers away from our global engineering headquarter? What started in 2020 has grown to 20 full time researchers and many more students that do research on topics such as GenAI, Agentic AI, Log Analytics, Procesesing of Large Data Sets, Sampling Strategies, Cloud Native Security or Memory and Storage Optimizations. Tune in and hear from Otmar and Martin how they are researching on the N+2 generation of Observability and AI, how they are contributing to open source projects such as OpenTelemetry, and what their predictions are when AI is finally taking control of us humans! To learn more about their work check out these links: Martin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mflechl/ Otmar's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmar-ertl/ Dynatrace Research Lab: https://careers.dynatrace.com/locations/linz/#__researchLab…

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Organizational Sustainability through Platform Engineering with Lesley Cordero 42:00

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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/…

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

10 weeks ago46:47

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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…

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

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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/…

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

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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/…

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

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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/…

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

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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/…

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

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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/…

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

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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/…

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

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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…

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

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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/…

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

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

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

32 weeks ago51:28

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

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

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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/…

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Understanding DORA - Europe's Digital Operational Resiliency Act with Kay Young 30:11

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DORA - the EU's Digital Operational Resiliency Act - will take effect in January of 2025 and is currently top of mind for IT Leaders across all financial service institutions that operate in the European Union. But what is DORA really? Why is this important? How can institutions meet the DORA requirements? What is the role of observability, automation and AI in all of this? To answer all those and more questions we invited Kay Young , Sr Principal Product Manager at Dynatrace, who has been working with organizations around the globe that have been tasked to implement regulations such as DORA, GDPR, FedRAMP or others. In our conversation we also touch base on the third-party risk management as well as resiliency testing and incident reporting. Resources we discussed: Kay's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlien-young-4a156730/ What is DORA blog: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/what-is-dora/ Taming DORA compliance: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/taming-dora-compliance-with-ai-observability-and-security/ Blog on Dynatrace's DORA compliance journey: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/the-dynatrace-journey-toward-dora-compliance/ Beyond DORA compliance: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/dora-how-dynatrace-helps-the-financial-sector-stay-resilient/…

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Lessons learned when building the NAIS Platform with Hans Kristian Flaatten 49:19

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Why Developer Observability is not a tooling problem with Viktor Farcic 58:29

42 weeks ago58:29

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Pitfalls to avoid when going all-in on OpenTelemetry with Hans Kristian Flaatten 55:07

44 weeks ago55:07

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Hans Kristian is a Platform Engineer for NAV's Kubernetes Platform Nais hosting Norway's wellfare services. With 10 years on Kubernetes, 2000 apps and 1000 developers across more than 100 teams there was a need to make OpenTelemetry adoption as easy as possible.Tune in as we hear from Hans Kristian who is also a CNCF Ambassador and hosts Cloud Native Day Bergen why OpenTelemetry is chosen by the public sector, why it took much longer to adopt, which challenges they had to scale the observability backend and how they are tackling the "noisy data problem" Links we discussed in the episode Follow Hans Kristian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansflaatten/ From 0 to 100 OTel Blog: https://nais.io/blog/posts/otel-from-0-to-100/?foo=bar Cloud Native Day Bergen: https://2024.cloudnativebergen.dev/ Public Money, Public Code. How we open source everything we do! ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4v05Huy2mlw&pp=ygUkT3BlbiBzb3VyY2Ugb3BlbiBnb3Zlcm5tZW50IGZsYWF0dGVu ) State of Platform Engineering in Norway ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3WFZhETlS9s&pp=ygUYc3RhdGUgb2YgcGxhdGZvcm0gbm9yd2F5 )…

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So you think you should Serverless? Things to know before you do with Sebastian Vietz! 1:01:30

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Has one of the decision makers in your organization decided that you have to go "all in on technology X" because they saw a great presentation at a conference or got a great sales pitch from a vendor? If that is the case then this episode is for you and you should forward it to those decision makers. Sebastian Vietz , Director of Reliability Engineering and Host of the Reliability Enablers Podcast , shares his thoughts on considerations when picking a technology like Serverless. We discuss the importance of knowing limits, best fit architectural patterns and things that should influence your technology decisions! Being aware of coldstarts, a 20000 concurrent request limit or 512mb being an ideal size for Lambda are just some of the things we can all learn from Sebastian. Additional links we discussed: Sebastians LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianvietz/ Reliability Podcast: https://podnews.net/podcast/ibe8k More things on serverless: https://serverlessland.com/…

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Observability that is Battle tested by Millions with Marco Sussitz and Wolfgang Ziegler 52:38

47 weeks ago52:38

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When your code runs on more than 6 million systems - many of them business critical - then this is really exciting news for Marco and Wolfgang, Dynatrace OneAgent Java Team members. Their code powers auto-instrumentation and collection of all observability signals of Java based applications running on every possible stack: container in k8s, serverless, VM, on your workstation or even the mainframe. Tune is as we sat down with Marco and Wolfgang to learn what it means to continuously innovate on agent-based instrumentation with 160+ other engineers across the globe that also focus on OneAgent . They share insights on how they develop their observability code, how they continuously test across all supported environments, what the processes at Dynatrace look like to avoid situations like the recent CrowdStrike outage and how they integrate and collaborate with other communities and tools such as OpenTelemetry! Things we discussed during the episode Dynatrace OneAgent: https://www.dynatrace.com/platform/oneagent/ Dynatrace for Java: https://www.dynatrace.com/technologies/java-monitoring/ OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/extend-dynatrace/opentelemetry Jobs at Dynatrace: https://careers.dynatrace.com/…

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Using Observability to Prioritize CrowdStrike Remediation with Josh Wood 38:12

48 weeks ago38:12

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When thousands of systems show a blue screen - which ones do you fix first to quickly bring up your most critical systems? For that you need to know which systems are impacted, which mission critical applications run on it, and which depending systems are also impacted by something like the recent CrowdStrike incident ! We have invited Josh Wood , Principal Solutions Engineer at Dynatrace, who was one of the first responders helping organizations to leverage observability data to identify which systems to fix first to bring critical apps such as ATMs, Self-Service Terminals, POS (Point of Sales), ... back up again quickly. In this special episode Josh is walking us through the technical details of the CrowdStrike BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), what caused it, how to leverage observability to get a priorities list of systems to fix first and what organizations can do to prevent software impacting issues in the future. Here the links we discussed in the episode: Josh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadwood/ Josh's blog on CrowdStrike BSOD: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/crowdstrike-bsod-quickly-find-machines-impacted-by-the-crowdstrike-issue/ CrowdStrike Incident Takeaway Blog: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/crowdstrike-incident-revisiting-vendor-quality-control/…

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Is it the time for WebAssembly (Wasm) to take off with Matt Butcher 53:23

51 weeks ago53:23

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WebAssembly runs in every browser, provides secure and fast code execution from any language, runs across multiple platforms and has a very small binary footprint. It's adopted by several of the big web-based SaaS solutions we use on a daily basis. But where did WebAssembly come from? What problems does it try to solve? Has it reached critical adoption? And how about observing code that gets executed in browsers, servers or embedded devices? To answer all those questions we invited Matt Butcher , CEO at Fermyon , who explains the history, current implementation status, limitations and opportunities that WebAssembly provides. Further links we disucssed LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbutcher/ Fermyon Dev Website: https://developer.fermyon.com/ The New Stack Blog with Matt: https://thenewstack.io/webassembly-and-kubernetes-go-better-together-matt-butcher/…

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Decrypting software reliability into a plain English with Ash Patel 53:27

1 year ago53:27

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"Because I don't want software to go down every single day in my next gig!" is what drives the motivation of Ash Patel, Reliability Advocate and Podcast host of SREpath, to talk about and educate IT professionals on the importance of building and operating reliable systems. For 15 years Ash used to be Director of Operations at a private health service organization. He has experienced that patients couldn't get the treatment they expected due to unreliable software he was responsible for. In our conversation Ash talks about how he had to close the knowledge gap on technology but also solve the problem by having engineers understand the pain and the requirements of their end users. One way to educate more engineers is through his podcast called SREpath where Observability has become a hot topic recently. Tune in, hear about the memorable stories from his guests from CapitalOne, IKEA and SquaredUp, and lets move towards a world where software is reliable by default. Links as discussed today: Ash on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-patel-srepath/ SREpath Podcast: https://www.srepath.com/podcast/ Clearing Delusions in Observability https://read.srepath.com/p/30-clearing-delusions-in-observability-2af Boosting your observability data's usability https://read.srepath.com/p/35-boosting-your-observability-datas-3f4 How to Enable Observability for Success https://read.srepath.com/p/40-how-to-enable-observability-for…

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Platform Engineering Maturity Model: Reaching 10x Efficiency with Abby Bangser 50:41

1 year ago50:41

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"Meet your users where they are!" - For Platform Engineering Teams that means understanding the current way your engineers work, understand their pain, and provide a solution that doesnt force them to change their behavior but provides a 10x efficiency improvement. Thats not easy to achieve but is what we discussed with Abby Bangser in our latest episode Abby is a Team Topologies Advocate, has spent years at Thoughtworks helping organizations transform through Delivery Platforms and is now a Lead at the CNCF Platform Working Group . Tune in and hear our discussions on Why Platform Engineering is nothing new, how to avoid Platform Engineering Teams to become your next bottleneck and silo, why Platforms need to have more than one interface and why the purpose of Platform Engineering should be to bring good Developer Experience to all engineers Here all the links we discussed during this episode Platform Engineering Maturity Model: https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platform-eng-maturity-model/ CNCF Platform Working Group: https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/wgs/platforms/ KubeCon 2024 Talk: https://colocatedeventseu2024.sched.com/event/1YFdf/sometimes-lipstick-is-exactly-what-a-pig-needs-abby-bangser-syntasso-whitney-lee-vmware GitHub Issue for Questionnaire: https://github.com/cncf/tag-app-delivery/issues/635 Kratix: https://www.kratix.io/ Abbys LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser/ Abbys Events: https://www.paintedwavelimited.com/events…

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How performance engineering saves the euro cup, holidays and keeps cloud costs low with Almudena Vivanco 49:25

1 year ago49:25

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Requesting more CPU for your database used to take 6 months of planning 20 years ago. Now it takes the execution of a Terraform script. What has stayed the same all those years is Almudena Vivanco 's passion for performance engineering to keep systems optimized. Ensuring that systems are available, scalable and resilient even during spike events such as the upcoming Euro Cup or any holiday specials. Tune in and hear from Almudena, who is currently working for SCRM Lidl, on how moving to the cloud gave new justification to performance engineering. She explains the importance of connecting business with service level objectives and gives insights on how Lidl makes sure to sell 50000 pieces of pork without breaking the cloud bank Here the additional links we discussed Slides from Barcelona Meetup: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1h83V4gUyqAmIWeAAtKb4BcRvuJV-XirLk-9Xq077nbw Video from TestCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIP_G-YBy04 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/almudenavivanco/…

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Educating the next generation of Observability Heroes with Rainer Schuppe 52:42

1 year ago52:42