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O11ycast

Heavybitwww.heavybit.com
Exploring the observability side of software development.
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Episodes

Ep. #60, Customer-Centric Observability with Todd Gardner and Winston Hearn

In episode 60 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Todd Gardner of TrackJS and Winston Hearn of Honeycomb. This talk explores customer-centric observability, Request Metrics, Core Web Vitals, and insights on optimizing observability across different browsers. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Apr 27, 202346 min

Ep. #59, Learning From Incidents with Laura Maguire of Jeli

In episode 59 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Laura Maguire of Jeli and Nick Travaglini of Honeycomb. They unpack Learning From Incidents (LFI), resilience engineering, process tracing, safety science, key takeaways from the LFI Conference, and the human side of observability. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Apr 13, 202349 min

Ep. #58, Game Development with Brenna Moore of Second Dinner

In episode 58 of o11ycast, Jess and Liz speak with Brenna Moore of Second Dinner. This conversation explores game development and the many ways the industry has evolved, the infrastructure side of gaming, semantic conventions within the code, and career opportunities for developers aspiring to enter the field. The post appeared first on Heavybit ....

Feb 15, 202339 min

Ep. #57, Monitoring K8s Applications with Shahar Azulay of Groundcover

In episode 57 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Shahar Azulay of Groundcover about monitoring Kubernetes applications, improving the UI experience of observability tools, and utilizing APMs. Shahar shares lessons learned from his storied career in R&D leadership positions, cyber security, machine learning and AI, as well as general advice for developers, SREs, project leaders, and executives. The post appeared first on Heavybit ....

Jan 19, 202340 min

Ep. #55, The Dev Side of Observability with Martin Thwaites of Honeycomb

In episode 55 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Martin Thwaites, a developer advocate at Honeycomb. They discuss the dev side of observability, exploring topics like logging pipelines, the pain of context switching for developers, the significance of the DevOps movement, best practices for scaling engineering teams, and outside-in test-driven development. The post appeared first on Heavybit ....

Sep 01, 202232 min

Ep. #54, Cloud Native Observability with Alex Boten of Lightstep

In episode 54 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones and Jessica Kerr speak with Alex Boton of Lightstep. They discuss Alex’s book Cloud Native Observability with OpenTelemetry, OTel documentation and community, vendor lock-in, and the pain of instrumentation. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Jun 30, 202239 min

Ep. #53, Seduced by Reality with Jean Yang of Akita Software

In episode 53 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr speak with Jean Yang of Akita Software about legacy software, API-driven observability, tips for improving team efficiency, and insights on how observability can inform programming languages. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Jun 20, 202229 min

Ep. #52, Service Level Objectives with Alex Hidalgo of Nobl9

In episode 52 of o11ycast, Charity and Jess speak with Alex Hidalgo of Nobl9. Alex shares his formative experiences advocating for reliability, insights on utilizing error budgets, and the attributes needed to leverage senior-level influence within a socio-technical environment. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

May 31, 202239 min

Ep. #51, Performance Engineering with Henrik Rexed of Dynatrace

In episode 51 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr are joined by Henrik Rexed of Dynatrace. This conversation covers a wide array of software and observability topics including trends in performance engineering, insights on minimizing system complexity, the shortcomings of auto-instrumentation, and best practices for avoiding vendor lock-in. The post appeared first on Heavybit ....

Apr 13, 202238 min

Ep. #50, Identifying Weak Spots with Benjamin Wilms of Steadybit

In episode 50 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr are joined by Benjamin Wilms of Steadybit. This conversation examines chaos engineering before production, identifying weak spots in your distributed system, and the health of the tech industry at large. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Apr 01, 202233 min

Ep. #49, Incident Commanders with Fred Hebert of Honeycomb

In episode 49 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr speak with Fred Hebert of Honeycomb about incident commanders. Listen in for insights on the role of SREs, the educational value in incidents, improving feedback cycles, and choosing the right OKRs. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Mar 07, 202240 min

Ep. #48, Mastering Migrations with Adriana Villela of Tucows

In episode 48 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz chat with Adriana Villela of Tucows. They unpack Adriana's journey into observability, the community resources that lit her path, and her experience driving o11y at Tucows. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Dec 23, 202129 min

Ep. #44, Examining OpenTelemetry with Vincent Behar of Ubisoft

In episode 44 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Vincent Behar of Ubisoft. Together they pull back the curtain on OpenTelemetry, exploring its popularity and standardization, as well as Vincent’s continuous journey to better understand the developer experience. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Oct 07, 202130 min

Ep. #43, Going Serverless with Apostolis (Toli) Apostolidis of Cinch

In episode 43 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Apostolis (Toli) Apostolidis of Cinch. They discuss Cinch’s move from containers to serverless, lessons learned from Team Topologies, and advice on structuring your org with strategic constraints. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Aug 26, 202135 min

Ep. #42, Continuous Profiling with Dmitry Filimonov of Pyroscope

In episode 42 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Dmitry Filimonov of Pyroscope. They discuss continuous profiling practices, use cases, and tools, as well as insights on how data is profiled at Pyroscope and how profiling resolution is measured. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Jul 20, 202129 min

Ep. #41, Organizing Conferences with Aaron Aldrich of Red Hat

In episode 41 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Aaron Aldrich of Red Hat. Together they pull back the curtain on organizing conferences, accelerating feedback cycles, multi-tenancy debugging, and getting started with new tools. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Jul 06, 202135 min

Ep. #40, Player Experience with Nick Herring of CCP Games

In episode 40 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Nick Herring of CCP Games. They discuss the challenges faced by engineers in the game space, the debugging procedure at CCP, and tactics for adopting large system changes. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Jun 17, 202140 min

Ep. #39, Sell The Sizzle with Jordan Simonovski of Atlassian

In episode 39 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jordan Simonovski of Atlassian. They explore the differences between tracing and logging, tactics for measuring reliability, and the journey of the observability team at Atlasssian. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Jun 04, 202130 min

Ep. #38, Infrastructure Changes with Andy Davies of Reaktor

In episode 38 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Andy Davies of Reaktor. Their conversation covers the importance of instrumentation, the prevalence of structured logging, and the potential risks of modifying database infrastructure. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

May 21, 202137 min

Ep. #37, Synchronization Layers and Logs with Garry Shutler of Cronofy

In episode 37 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Garry Shutler of Cronofy. Together they pull back the curtain on building scheduling tools, making observability tools accessible to teams, and keeping deploys boring. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Apr 30, 202131 min

Ep. #36, Resilience Engineering with Jacob Scott of Stripe

In episode 36 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jacob Scott of Stripe about the need for SRE teams, prioritizing customer happiness, and the limitations of distributed tracing tools. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Apr 15, 202128 min

Ep. #35, Government Software Systems with Mark Ferlatte of Truss

In episode 35 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Mark Ferlatte of Truss. They discuss government software system failures and successes including Healthcare.gov and the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Mar 12, 202134 min

Ep. #34, Diminishing Complexity with Jaana Dogan of AWS

In episode 34 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jaana Dogan of AWS. They discuss Jaana’s career journey, life before observability tools, and reducing system complexity within large organizations. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Feb 25, 202133 min

Ep. #33, Information Accessibility with Katy Farmer of CircleCI

In episode 33 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Katy Farmer of CircleCI. They discuss learned helplessness, understanding complicated systems through direct experience, and championing devs to fail gracefully. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Jan 29, 202132 min

Ep. #32, Managing Hardware with Gianluca Arbezzano of Equinix Metal

In episode 32 of o11ycast, Liz and Shelby speak with Gianluca Arbezzano of Equinix Metal. They discuss diversifying the way observability is evangelized, the indicators that an organization has outgrown off-the-shelf tools, and managing hardware. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Jan 14, 202133 min

Ep. #31, Rewarding Curiosity with Ellen Chisa of Dark

In episode 31 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Ellen Chisa of Dark discuss the benefits of making observability tools more accessible, tailoring feedback to individuals, and the many ways software may change in the years to come. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Dec 23, 202034 min

Ep. #30, Harder Conversations with Beau Lyddon of Workday

In episode 30 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Beau Lyddon of Workday about the recent sea change in observability, the shortcomings of metrics, the role of senior engineers, and the responsibilities of corporations. The post appeared first on Heavybit .

Dec 14, 202046 min
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