Pixie Labs built an observabiity platform for Kubernetes, which uses eBPF to get telemetry without user intervention. They were recently acquired by New Relic, who open sourced the Pixie software. Co-founders Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee join Craig Box to tell the story and talk about what’s next. Guest host Alex Ellis tends his garden.

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Chatter of the week

• Episode 116, with Alex Ellis
• GrowLab
  • Announcement blog
  • Alex’s talk at the GIFEE Day
  • Monty Don
• OpenFaaS in the RISC-V keynote
• New Kubernetes on Edge training course

News of the week

• eBPF for Windows
• GKE Dataplane V2 is GA
• Confluent for Kubernetes GA
• VMware Tanzu SQL, with MySQL, for Kubernetes, 1.0
• VMware Modern Apps Connectivity Solution
• Do the State of DevOps survey!

Links from the interview

• Pixie Labs
• What is Pixie overview slides presented to CNCF
• Public beta launch and announcement of Series A funding
  • TechCrunch coverage
• Pixie Labs acquired by New Relic; New Relic acquires Pixie Labs
• A day in the life of a Kiva robot
• Recognition for Google Lens clothing recognition
• Dog or blueberry muffin?
• Episode 125, with Ramiro Berrelleza
• How Pixie Works
• New Relic goes all-in on OpenTelemetry and Open Source
• Pixie on GitHub
• Pixienauts community
• New Relic upgrades to Platinum member at CNCF
• Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee on Twitter