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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 perfor ...
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PurePerformance Cafes are short interviews with practitioners and thought leaders from around the globe. We found it a great way to get introduced to a new topic or just learn what others are doing in their day-to-day job to contribute to better quality and high performing software.
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Interviewed by Deirdre Breakenridge, women around the globe share their incredible stories--from the heights of success to the agony of defeat.
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Organizational Sustainability through Platform Engineering with Lesley Cordero
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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 sociote…
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Run Towards the Fire: Why we should love incidents with Lisa Karlin Curtis
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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 le…
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MCPs (Model Context Protocol) are not that magic, but they enable magic things with Dana Harrison
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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 t…
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The History & Power of Distributed Tracing with Christoph Neumueller & Thomas Rothschaedl
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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 t…
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An Inside Look into Platform Engineering for Architects with the authors Max, Hilliary & Andi
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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 buildi…
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How CERN analyzed 1 PetaByte per second using K8s with Ricardo Rocha
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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 Advo…
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Why Compliance is Important and not Boring with Michiel de Lepper
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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, …
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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 invi…
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Observability Predictions 2025 Under the Covers with Bernd Greifeneder
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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 …
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From Infra to Services to Happy End Users: The role of SLOs at Uber with Vishnu Acharya
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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 …
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The Road to OpenTelemetry Adoption at Booking with Anton Timofieiev
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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 ob…
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Why Security and Compliance must not be a showstopper for SaaS with Milan Steskal
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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 …
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Every Byte Counts: Web Performance Flashback with Andreas Taranetz
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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 fla…
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The Security and Resiliency Challenges of Cloud Native Authorization with Alex Olivier
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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…
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Open Source: Why its the Best Thing that happened to IT with Marcio Lena
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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 iden…
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Understanding DORA - Europe's Digital Operational Resiliency Act with Kay Young
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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, automat…
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Lessons learned when building the NAIS Platform with Hans Kristian Flaatten
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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 th…
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