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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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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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Why Developer Observability is not a tooling problem with Viktor Farcic
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"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 ea…
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Pitfalls to avoid when going all-in on OpenTelemetry with Hans Kristian Flaatten
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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 Nati…
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So you think you should Serverless? Things to know before you do with Sebastian Vietz!
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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 Enginee…
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Observability that is Battle tested by Millions with Marco Sussitz and Wolfgang Ziegler
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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, serverl…
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Using Observability to Prioritize CrowdStrike Remediation with Josh Wood
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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, Pr…
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Is it the time for WebAssembly (Wasm) to take off with Matt Butcher
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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 adop…
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Decrypting software reliability into a plain English with Ash Patel
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"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 serv…
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Platform Engineering Maturity Model: Reaching 10x Efficiency with Abby Bangser
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"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 e…
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How performance engineering saves the euro cup, holidays and keeps cloud costs low with Almudena Vivanco
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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 suc…
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Educating the next generation of Observability Heroes with Rainer Schuppe
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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 V…
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eBPF and the Superpowers it unleashes with Liz Rice
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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 …
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From Performance Testing to Designing for Performance with Ernst Ambichl
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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…
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SREs must not be your SWAT Teams with Dana Harrison
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SREs (Site Reliability Engineers) have varying roles across different organizations: From Codifying your Infrastructure, handling high priority incidents, automating resiliency, ensuring proper observability, defining SLOs or getting rid of alert fatigue. What an SRE team must not be is a SWAT team - or - as Dana Harrison, Staff SRE at Telus puts i…
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