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 Engineering and Host of the Reliability Enablers Podcast, shares his thoughts on considerations when picking a technology like Serverless. We discuss the importance of knowing limits, best fit architectural patterns and things that should influence your technology decisions!
Being aware of coldstarts, a 20000 concurrent request limit or 512mb being an ideal size for Lambda are just some of the things we can all learn from Sebastian.

Additional links we discussed:
Sebastians LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianvietz/
Reliability Podcast: https://podnews.net/podcast/ibe8k
More things on serverless: https://serverlessland.com/

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, serverless, VM, on your workstation or even the mainframe.
Tune is as we sat down with Marco and Wolfgang to learn what it means to continuously innovate on agent-based instrumentation with 160+ other engineers across the globe that also focus on OneAgent. They share insights on how they develop their observability code, how they continuously test across all supported environments, what the processes at Dynatrace look like to avoid situations like the recent CrowdStrike outage and how they integrate and collaborate with other communities and tools such as OpenTelemetry!

Things we discussed during the episode
Dynatrace OneAgent: https://www.dynatrace.com/platform/oneagent/
Dynatrace for Java: https://www.dynatrace.com/technologies/java-monitoring/
OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/extend-dynatrace/opentelemetry
Jobs at Dynatrace: https://careers.dynatrace.com/

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, Principal Solutions Engineer at Dynatrace, who was one of the first responders helping organizations to leverage observability data to identify which systems to fix first to bring critical apps such as ATMs, Self-Service Terminals, POS (Point of Sales), ... back up again quickly.
In this special episode Josh is walking us through the technical details of the CrowdStrike BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), what caused it, how to leverage observability to get a priorities list of systems to fix first and what organizations can do to prevent software impacting issues in the future.

Here the links we discussed in the episode:
Josh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadwood/
Josh's blog on CrowdStrike BSOD: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/crowdstrike-bsod-quickly-find-machines-impacted-by-the-crowdstrike-issue/
CrowdStrike Incident Takeaway Blog: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/crowdstrike-incident-revisiting-vendor-quality-control/ 

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 adoption? And how about observing code that gets executed in browsers, servers or embedded devices?
To answer all those questions we invited Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon, who explains the history, current implementation status, limitations and opportunities that WebAssembly provides.

Further links we disucssed
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbutcher/
Fermyon Dev Website: https://developer.fermyon.com/ 
The New Stack Blog with Matt: https://thenewstack.io/webassembly-and-kubernetes-go-better-together-matt-butcher/ 

"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 service organization. He has experienced that patients couldn't get the treatment they expected due to unreliable software he was responsible for. 
In our conversation Ash talks about how he had to close the knowledge gap on technology but also solve the problem by having engineers understand the pain and the requirements of their end users. One way to educate more engineers is through his podcast called SREpath where Observability has become a hot topic recently. Tune in, hear about the memorable stories from his guests from CapitalOne, IKEA and SquaredUp, and lets move towards a world where software is reliable by default.

Links as discussed today:
Ash on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-patel-srepath/
SREpath Podcast: https://www.srepath.com/podcast/
Clearing Delusions in Observability https://read.srepath.com/p/30-clearing-delusions-in-observability-2af 
Boosting your observability data's usability https://read.srepath.com/p/35-boosting-your-observability-datas-3f4 
How to Enable Observability for Success https://read.srepath.com/p/40-how-to-enable-observability-for

"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 episode
Abby is a Team Topologies Advocate, has spent years at Thoughtworks helping organizations transform through Delivery Platforms and is now a Lead at the CNCF Platform Working Group. Tune in and hear our discussions on Why Platform Engineering is nothing new, how to avoid Platform Engineering Teams to become your next bottleneck and silo, why Platforms need to have more than one interface and why the purpose of Platform Engineering should be to bring good Developer Experience to all engineers

Here all the links we discussed during this episode
Platform Engineering Maturity Model: https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platform-eng-maturity-model/
CNCF Platform Working Group: https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/wgs/platforms/
KubeCon 2024 Talk: https://colocatedeventseu2024.sched.com/event/1YFdf/sometimes-lipstick-is-exactly-what-a-pig-needs-abby-bangser-syntasso-whitney-lee-vmware
GitHub Issue for Questionnaire: https://github.com/cncf/tag-app-delivery/issues/635
Kratix: https://www.kratix.io/
Abbys LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser/
Abbys Events: https://www.paintedwavelimited.com/events 

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 such as the upcoming Euro Cup or any holiday specials.
Tune in and hear from Almudena, who is currently working for SCRM Lidl, on how moving to the cloud gave new justification to performance engineering. She explains the importance of connecting business with service level objectives and gives insights on how Lidl makes sure to sell 50000 pieces of pork without breaking the cloud bank

Here the additional links we discussed
Slides from Barcelona Meetup: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1h83V4gUyqAmIWeAAtKb4BcRvuJV-XirLk-9Xq077nbw
Video from TestCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIP_G-YBy04
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/almudenavivanco/

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 Veteran (more than 20+ years in the space), who has worked for the majority of the observability vendors. He is sharing his observability expertise through workshops in his home town of Mallorca. Teaching organizations from basic to strategic observability implementations.
Tune in and learn about the typical adoption and maturity path of observability within enterprises: from fixing a problem at hand, to justifying the cost to keep it until enabling companies to become information driven digital organizations! Also check out his OpenTelemetry journey in his blog post series

Here are the links we discussed today:
Observability Heroes Website: https://observability-heroes.com/
Observability Heroes Community: https://observability.mn.co/
Cloud Native Mallorca Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/cloud-native-mallorca/
OpenTelemetry: https://opentelemetry.io/
Rainer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rainerschuppe/

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 your own eBPF programs!
Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, kicks this episode off with a brief introduction of eBPF, explains how it works, which use cases it has enabled and why eBPF can truly give you super powers! 
In our conversation we dive deeper into the performance aspects of eBPF: how and why tools like Cillium outperforms classical network load balancers, how performance engineers can use it and how the Kernel internally handles eBPF extecutions.

We discussed a lot of follow up material - here are all the relevant links:
Liz's slide deck on "Unleashing the kernel with eBPF": https://speakerdeck.com/lizrice/unleashing-the-kernel-with-ebpf
eBPF Documentary on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb_vD3XZYOA
Learning eBPF GitHub repo accompanying her book: https://github.com/lizrice/learning-ebpf 
eBPF website: https://epbf.io
Liz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizrice/ 

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 tools for databases which later became one of the most successful performance engineering tools in the market.
Tune in and learn about how Ernst has evolved from being a performance engineer to become an advocate for "Designing and Architecting for Performance". Ernst explains how important good upfront analysis of performance requirements and characteristics of the underlying infrastructure is, how to define baselines and constantly evaluate your changes against your goals.
On a personal note: I want to say THANK YOU Ernst for being one of my personal mentors over the past 20+ years. You inspired me with your passion about performance and building resilient systems