The Production-First Mindset

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Tamar Stern , BackEnd Group Leader at XM Cyber.  They discuss how she got into the world of conference public speaking, how performance for Nodejs is different from other languages, how to go about understanding performance throughout the software development lifecycle, and why she doesn’t recommend profiling your production environment.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Orit Yaron , VP Cloud Platform at Transmit Security.  They discuss technical vs. cultural priorities, how they handle on-call rotations and keep it from being a burden, human error and how it can be used to explain…everything. designing systems to cope with mistakes, and being proactive in learning.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Stefan Thorpe , CEO at Cherre.  They discuss how he knew that the cloud was where he was going to go, the whole point of DevOps, why they monitor everything, what they’re doing with Kubernetes and why they’re excited about it, and why they don’t use terraform.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Shir Chorev, CTO at Deepchecks.  They discuss what machine learning means to her, why we’re far away from aliens taking over the world, how machine learning is different from traditional engineering, and where automated tests shine in machine learning.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Ron Reiter, Co-Founder & CTO at Sentra.  They discuss his experience selling his previous company, why he tries to do as little DevOps as he can, what it was like running a production service within such a huge company, how to avoid growing pains at scale, what made him invest in Rookout, and the importance of usefulness.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Julia Shub, DevOps Lead at Lawgeex.  They discuss being the rising star of DevOps, her experience being a DevOps engineer and the switch over to it, the importance of processes surrounding the development lifecycle, the key benefits to keeping with Jenkins over a CI service, and how OpsSchool helps change lives within the tech industry.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Sudeeptha Jothiprakash, Product Lead at Doordash.  They discuss solving consumer issues, being able to find the needle in the haystack of containers, gaining a deep level of granularity without spiraling costs, the division of responsibility, and what the most important thing for DevOps engineers to be doing is.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Hila Fish, Sr. DevOps Engineer at Wix.com.  They discuss being a fan of open-source, dealing with the unexpected , understanding the nature of migrations, the challenges of deploying Gitlab on a GKE, and what it means to do data engineering.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Herb Brittner, Sr. Director of Technology at Netsertive.  They discuss running Java and PHP side by side in modern cloud environments, solving problems for customers, making sure everything isn’t cookie cutter all the time, the two sides to their data, aligning your product roadmap with your company’s goals, and the changes they’ve made over the past few years to make their PHP servers easier to maintain.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Tamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering at Box.  They discuss what it was like growing from a senior engineer to VP of Engineering, her cloud journey of 20+ years, the process of migrating workflows to run majorly cloud, the key advantages to migrating to the cloud, and why making everything perfect is a bad way to build systems.