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Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #564

Observing the power of APIs

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2023-11-02T14:45:00Z #api +1 šŸŽ§ 18,139

Jean Yangā€™s research on programming languages at Carnegie Mellon led her to realize that APIs are the layer that makes or breaks quality software systems. Unfortunately, developers are underserved by tools for dealing with, securing & understanding APIs.

That realization led her to found Akita Software, which led her to join Postman by way of acquisition. That move, at least in part, also led her to join us on this very podcast. We think youā€™re going to enjoy this interview, we sure did.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #501

The power of eBPF

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2022-08-14T03:00:00Z #linux +2 šŸŽ§ 35,075

eBPF is a revolutionary kernel technology that has lit the cloud native world on fire. If youā€™re going to have one person explain the excitement, that person would be Liz Rice. Liz is the COSO at Isovalent, creators of the open source Cilium project and pioneers of eBPF tech.

On this episode Liz tells Jerod all about the power of eBPF, where it came from, what kind of new applications its enabling, and who is building the next generation of networking, security, and observability tools with it.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #92

Enabling a world where all software is reliable

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2022-07-15T15:30:00Z #startups +2 šŸŽ§ 7,274

This week Adam is joined by Robert Ross founder and CEO of FireHydrant ā€” the glue layer between your tech stack and your teams to mitigate and resolve incidents at scale.

Robert shares his journey to become a software engineer, his time at DigitalOcean, this idea of incident management as a platform and how he shifted his focus from creating courses on incident management to recognizing the value of the software he was creating for the course ā€” what is now known as FireHydrant. We also talk through his first experience in raising capital, what happens when the bar is raised on the reliability of the worldā€™s software, and why their mantra is ā€œHire great people, who build, sell and market a great product, and youā€™ll have a great company.ā€

Ship It! Ship It! #57

What do oranges & flame graphs have in common?

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2022-06-17T18:45:00Z #ops +1 šŸŽ§ 7,151

Today we are talking with Frederic Branczyk, founder of Polar Signals & Prometheus maintainer. You may remember Frederic from episode 33 when we introduced Parca.dev.

This time, we talk about a database built for observability: FrostDB, formerly known as ArcticDB. eBPF generates a lot of high cardinality data, which requires a new approach to writing, persisting & then reading back this state.

TL;DR FrostDB is sub zero cool & well worthy of its name.

Go Time Go Time #234

Observability in the wild: strategies that work

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2022-06-16T21:00:00Z #observability +1
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This week weā€™re featuring an episode of Grafanaā€™s Big Tent! LEGO Group principal engineer Nayana Shetty swaps observability survival stories (to drill or not to drill?) with hosts Mat Ryer and Matt Toback. The trio also reveals new and different observability strategies that have been successful and effective in their organizations.

Plus: Nayana shares how she built her successful observability career brick by brick.

Founders Talk Founders Talk #86

Bringing observability superpowers to all

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2022-01-28T12:00:00Z #startups +1 šŸŽ§ 8,736

This week Adam is joined by Christine Yen, co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb. Christine and Adam recorded this show late last year, just after their Series C funding round. They talk about the superpower of observability for developers, how she and Charity Majors got to the place to found Honeycomb, the state of their platform today, what exactly observability is, and their goals for the future of Honeycomb.

Ship It! Ship It! #27

OpenTelemetry in your CI/CD

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2021-11-11T19:15:00Z #ops +2 šŸŽ§ 6,356

In this episode, Gerhard is joined by Cyrille Le Clerc, Product Manager Lead on Observability at Elastic, and Oleg Nenashev, Principal Engineer at CloudBees.

It all started with Olegā€™s tweet back in July, in which he was promoting Akihiro Kiuchiā€™s work on Jenkins monitoring with OpenTelemetry. This was done in the context of Googleā€™s Summer of Code - a link to Akihiroā€™s demo is in the show notes.

As you may remember from episode 20, instrumenting our changelog.com pipeline is on Gerhardā€™s mind, and this conversation helped him clarify a few things. If you are thinking of instrumenting your CI/CD pipeline with OpenTelemetry, this episode is for you.

Ship It! Ship It! #26

Gerhard at KubeCon NA 2021: Part 2

In the second set of interviews from KubeCon North America 2021, Gerhard and Liz Rice talk about eBPF superpowers - Cilium + Hubble - and whatā€™s it like to work with Duffie Cooley.

Jared Watts shares the story behind Crossplane reaching incubating status, and Dan Mangum tells us what it was like to be at this KubeCon in person. Danā€™s new COO role (read Click Ops Officer) comes up.

David Ansari from VMware speaks about his first KubeCon experience both as an attendee and as a speaker. The RabbitMQ Deep Dive talk that he gave will be a nice surprise if you watch it - link in the show notes.

Dan Lorenc brings his unique perspective on supply chain security, and tells us about the new company that he co-founded, Chainguard. How to secure container images gets covered, as well as one of the easter eggs that Scott Nichols put in chainguard.dev.

Ship It! Ship It! #12

Grafanaā€™s "Big Tent" idea

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2021-07-30T14:30:00Z #ops +1 šŸŽ§ 5,555

Gerhard talks to Tom Wilkie, VP of Product for Grafana Labs. They talk about Loki, Tempo, and how can Grafana Cloud offer such a generous free tier. The solution is in the Cortex architecture, which was used in Loki and in Tempo too. Yes, Tom is the Cortex co-author. We recommend that you listen to this episode in combination with episodes 3 and 11. Thatā€™s the best way to get a more complete picture of the topics that we discuss today.

Lastly, would you like to watch Gerhard & Tom pair-up and build Grafana dashboards like pros? Tom has this really interesting approach that Gerhard would like to learn too. We can either have a live YouTube stream, or record and then publish the video. Let us know your preference via our Changelog Slack, or just plain Twitter.

Ship It! Ship It! #11

Honeycomb's secret to high-performing teams

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2021-07-22T16:45:00Z #ops +2 šŸŽ§ 5,518

Gerhard talks with Charity Majors, ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io about high-performing teams, why ā€œ15 minutes or bust,ā€ and how we should start using Honeycomb in our own monolithic Phoenix app that runs changelog.com. There is just one step, and itā€™s actually really simple!

They also talk about how Honeycomb uses Honeycomb to learn about Honeycomb, which is one of Gerhardā€™s favorite questions. As for key take-aways, deploying straight into production is really important, but not as important as optimising for humans - which are not replaceable cogs, that learn and share their learnings continuously. That is the secret to making things easy and happy for everyone.

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