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PurePerformance

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The brutal truth about digital performance engineering and operations.Andreas (aka Andi) Grabner and Brian Wilson are veterans of the digital performance world. Combined they have seen too many applications not scaling and performing up to expectations. With more rapid deployment models made possible through continuous delivery and a mentality shift sparked by DevOps they feel it’s time to share their stories. In each episode, they and their guests discuss different topics concerning performance,

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50:59

From Infra to Services to Happy End Users: The role...

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2025/01/06

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

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53:45

The Road to OpenTelemetry Adoption at Booking with...

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2024/12/23

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

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52:00

Why Security and Compliance must not be a showstopper...

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2024/12/09

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

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51:28

Every Byte Counts: Web Performance Flashback with...

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2024/11/25

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,

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52:35

The Security and Resiliency Challenges of Cloud...

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2024/11/11

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

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64:40

Open Source: Why its the Best Thing that happened to...

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2024/10/28

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

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30:11

Understanding DORA - Europe's Digital Operational...

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2024/10/14

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

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49:19

Lessons learned when building the NAIS Platform with...

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2024/09/30

NAIS (pronounced like NICE) is a team central application platform that provides DevOps teams with the tools they need build, test, deploy, run and observe applications.In this episode Hans Kristian Flaatten, Platform Engineer at NAV, walks us through the WHYs, HOWs and challenges of building modern platforms on Kubernetes. Tune in and hear WHY they defined their own abstraction layer for applications, HOW developers benefit from that platform and WHY they developed their developer portal instead of

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58:29

Why Developer Observability is not a tooling problem...

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2024/09/16

"We will overwhelm developers if we give them the same specialized observability, security or deployment tools that are used by their platform engineering, operations, SREs or security teams!" - says Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at UpBound and host of The DevOps Toolkit YouTube channel. Tune in and hear us discuss about making observability easier accessible for developers, what Viktor doesn't like about Kubernetes and how Crossplane - the cloud native control plane framework - can be the

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55:07

Pitfalls to avoid when going all-in on OpenTelemetry...

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2024/09/02

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

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61:30

So you think you should Serverless? Things to know...

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2024/08/26

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

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52:38

Observability that is Battle tested by Millions with...

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2024/08/12

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

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38:12

Using Observability to Prioritize CrowdStrike...

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2024/08/05

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

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53:23

Is it the time for WebAssembly (Wasm) to take off...

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2024/07/15

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

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53:27

Decrypting software reliability into a plain English...

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2024/07/01

"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

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50:41

Platform Engineering Maturity Model: Reaching 10x...

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2024/06/17

"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 episodeAbby is a Team Topologies Advocate, has spent years at Thoughtworks helping organizations transform through Delivery Platforms and is now a Lead at

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49:25

How performance engineering saves the euro cup,...

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2024/06/03

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

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52:42

Educating the next generation of Observability Heroes...

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2024/05/20

Making observability available to everyone! This noble goal needs superhero powers in an IT world where there is so much chatter and confusion about what observability is, how to sell the value add besides a glorified troubleshooting tool and how OpenTelemetry will disrupt the landscape.In our latest episode we have Rainer Schuppe, Observability Veteran (more than 20+ years in the space), who has worked for the majority of the observability vendors. He is sharing his observability expertise through

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47:41

eBPF and the Superpowers it unleashes with Liz Rice

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2024/05/06

eBPF is a kernel technology enabling high-performance, low overhead tools for networking, security and observability. In simpler terms: eBPF makes the kernel programmable!Tune in to this episode whether you have never heard about eBPF, using eBPF based tools such as bcc, Cillium, Falco, Tetragon, Inspector Gadget ... or whether you are developing your own eBPF programs!Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, kicks this episode off with a brief introduction of eBPF, explains how it works,

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51:45

From Performance Testing to Designing for Performance...

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2024/04/22

Use Things you Understand! Learn the fundamentals to understand the layers of abstraction! And remember that we don't live in a world with unlimited resources!These are advice from our recent conversation with Ernst Ambichl, Chief Product Architect at Dynatrace, who has started his performance career in the late 80s building the first load testing tools for databases which later became one of the most successful performance engineering tools in the market.Tune in and learn about how Ernst has

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