The History & Power Of Distributed Tracing With Christoph Neumueller & Thomas Rothschaedl PurePerformance podcast

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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

19 days ago42:00

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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

5 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

7 weeks ago46:43

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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

9 weeks ago56:19

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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

11 weeks ago59:14

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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

13 weeks ago38:31

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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

15 weeks ago50:40

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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

17 weeks ago50:36

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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

19 weeks ago47:31

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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

21 weeks ago50:59

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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

23 weeks ago53:45

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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/…

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

25 weeks ago52:00

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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/…

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

27 weeks ago51:28

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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/…

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

29 weeks ago52:35