Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand for DevOps or SRE? And how does observability pertain to platform engineering?

On this episode of OpenObservability Talks Horovits hosted George Hantzaras, Director of Cloud Platform Engineering at Citrix. George is a distributed systems expert and a hands-on engineering leader with focus on delivering B2B cloud services at scale. Coming from a DevOps background, he focuses on implementing SRE at enterprise scale working with cloud native technologies. He has been organizing the Athens Cloud Computing Meetup since 2016 and the Athens Hashicorp User Group. Most recently, he has been a speaker at global events like Hashiconf, DeveloperWeek, Voxxed Days, DevNexus and more, focusing on reliability engineering, agile leadership, scaling engineering teams, and entrepreneurship.

The episode was live-streamed on 6 October 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/zJGMUVY6fDM

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Instrumentation is that black magic that makes our application emit traces, logs, metrics or other telemetry. How does it work? What options are available in different programming languages, such as Java, Python and Go? What does OpenTelemetry offer in this domain?  

On this episode of OpenObservability Talks I hosted Eden Federman, Co-Founder & CTO at keyval, a company focused on making observability simpler. Eden is the creator of two open source projects: Odigos and Go automatic instrumentation (now part of OpenTelemetry). Eden is passionate about everything related to observability and performance monitoring. He also created kubectl-flame, a profiler for Kubernetes.

The episode was live-streamed on 22 September 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/VFykWV1mLAI

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In this episode, hosted by Jonah Kowall we are excited to introduce Pranay Prateek the co-founder and creator of SigNoz to the audience. He is an entrepreneur who has been building an interesting and exciting open-source observability platform. The goal is a unified interface and data storage system which is scalable and manageable much more easily than today’s disjointed open-source tools. SigNoz has a goal of unifying tracing, metrics, and logging in a single platform and interface. We’ll dig into the evolution of this unique project from its creation until today, along with the adoption of the technology and contribution from the community. We will discuss the data architecture and their move from Druid towards ClickHouse, which is always a fascinating topic. Finally, we’ll elaborate on the future of SigNoz and where things are going with the project. Join me, Jonah Kowall, as I speak with Pranay Prateek on this episode of OpenObservability Talks.

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We all collect logs, metrics and perhaps traces and other data types, in support of our observability. But this can get expensive pretty quickly, especially in microservices based systems, in what is commonly known as “the cardinality problem”.  

On this episode of OpenObservability Talks I’ll host Ben Sigelman, co-founder and the GM of Lightstep, to discuss this data problem and how to overcome it. Ben architected Google’s own planet-scale metrics and distributed tracing systems (still in production today), and went on to co-create the open-source OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects, both part of the CNCF.

The episode was live-streamed on 12 July 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/gJhzwP-mZ2k

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OpenTelemetry is one of the most fascinating and ambitious open source projects of this era. It’s currently the second most active project in the CNCF (the Cloud Native Computing Foundation), with only Kubernetes being more active. The entire industry is aligning behind this project, including incumbent monitoring vendors that were deeply vested in proprietary and closed-source agents to that end.

In this episode of OpenObservability Talks I’ll host Alolita Sharma to discuss OpenTelemetry, its origins and mission statement, as well as updates hot off the press from the recent KubeCon conference in Valencia about releases and future plans.

Alolita is co-chair of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group for Observability, member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee and a board director of the Unicode Consortium. She has served on the boards of the OSI and SFLC.in. Alolita has led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal, IBM and AWS. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her.

The episode was live-streamed on 15 June 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/IK2TWOzDUBI 

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Developers hate monitoring, but we need it. We need it in many points of the software development lifecycle: before deprecating an API, before launching a new feature, after launching the feature, and more. In fact, monitoring needs can vary much more than the classic Ops monitoring.

In this episode I’ll host Liran Haimovitch to discuss how to determine what developers should be monitoring, the difference between observability for Dev and for Ops, and how observability fits into our current dev tools, dev stack and dev processes.

Liran is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rookout. He’s an Observability and Instrumentation expert with a deep understanding of Java, Python, Node, and C++. Liran has broad experience in cybersecurity and compliance from his past roles. When not coding, you can find Liran hosting his podcast, speaking at conferences, writing about his tech adventures, and trying out the local cuisine when traveling.

The episode was live-streamed on 10 May 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/OaHQp-qnVN0 

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OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. The OpenSearch project started just over a year ago and is now the open-source alternative to ELK, which is no longer open source. The team has spent much of the last year getting the project going, but there was innovation as well. We will cover and discuss what OpenSearch has accomplished, but more importantly what’s coming next, including a big 2.0 release. We are joined in this episode by Eli Fisher, who is the product lead at AWS, working on the OpenSearch project. He’ll dive into recent launches, including several observability features, and innovations planned for 2.0 and beyond.   

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Google’s SRE Book popularized the concept of Service Level Objective (SLO) and the SLO-driven approach. But what does it really mean to make SLO driven decisions? How can we generate observability and synchronize teams around joint SLOs? And how can we automate SLOs and integrate them into the software release pipeline?

In this episode I’ll host Andreas Grabner. We’ll discuss the SRE practices, and how to automate SLO from dev all the way to prod. We’ll talk about the open source efforts to standardize the process under the Continuous Delivery Foundation, and about Keptn, the new CNCF open source project that promises to help with this automation.

Andreas Grabner (@grabnerandi) has 20+ years of experience as a software developer, tester and architect and is an advocate for high-performing cloud scale applications. He is a contributor and DevRel for the CNCF open source project keptn (www.keptn.sh). Andreas is also a regular contributor to the DevOps community, a frequent speaker at technology conferences and regularly publishes articles on blog.dynatrace.com or medium. In his spare time you can most likely find him on one of the salsa dancefloors of the world.

The episode was live-streamed on 15 March 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/J81byOpVqrk 

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What does it take to build observability in a web-scale company such as Slack, Pinterest and Twitter?

On this episode of OpenObsevability Talks I'll host Suman Karumuri to hear how he built these systems from the ground up on these #BigTech co's, about his recent research papers and more.

Suman Karumuri is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer and the tech lead for Observability at Slack. Suman Karumuri is an expert in distributed tracing and was a tech lead of Zipkin and a co-author of OpenTracing standard, a Linux Foundation project via the CNCF. Previously, Suman Karumuri has spent several years building and operating petabyte scale log search, distributed tracing and metrics systems at Pinterest, Twitter and Amazon.  In his spare time, he enjoys board games, hiking and playing with his kids.

The episode was live-streamed on 16 February 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/IvidkV3TfYg 

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* Who owns observability in large organizations?

* The gaps in current way of handling metrics 

* MACH research paper for metrics storage engine

* The gaps in current way of handling logs Slack KalDB

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SaaS (software as a service) is a popular model for many businesses today. SaaS businesses need agility to move fast and remain competitive. This means agility in the software IT stack, but also agility in the business models and product-led growth (PLG). Observability plays a key role in enabling SaaS organizations to move fast.

Achieving this agility, however, raises specific observability requirements. On this episode of OpenObservability Talks we’ll host Aviad Mizrachi, the CTO and Co-Founder of Frontegg, to help us map these requirements. Having escorted dozens of SaaS businesses across many verticals, Aviad brings a wealth of experience in how today’s SaaS is built and operated, and will share his insights and best practices on how to design and build the observability stack right.

Aviad has been a developer for the last 20 years. He held a few management and architecture positions on startups such as Vicon and HTS as well as in larger companies such as NICE and CheckPoint. Today at Frontegg Aviad works closely with many customers to help them build their SaaS solutions.

The episode was live-streamed on YouTube Live and Twitch on 11 Jan 2022 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcneTMeBPeg 

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