The Production-First Mindset

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Dudi Cohen, VP R&D at Rookout.  They discuss the small nature of startups and its effects, why passion = potential when it comes to learning tech, developing for developers, why developers should stop working with sticks and stones, how to make sure your coding process isn’t only focused on thinking about the future, the experience of dogfooding their own code, and more!

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Boris Cherkasky, Software Engineer and Production Advocate at Riskified.  They discuss setting expectations for what the future looks like, his experience mentoring over the years, why he wants to stop hearing people say “it’s not my responsibility”, and how to get comfortable in production.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Eynav Mass, VP R&D  at Oribi.  They discuss what Oribi is all about,  adapting SDLC to the data that works in production, the culture required to move fast and take risks, and how they know what’s going on in production.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Peter Naftaliev who is the CTO at Munch.  They discuss his journey that brought him to Munch, what it means to build an automation platform for content creators, his experience launching an MVP (minimum viable product), and what he would’ve done differently if he could do it all again.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Jin Chun who is the Senior Vice President and Head of Cognitive Computing at Fidelity Investments.  They discuss the role of tech within Fidelity,  his experience of doing agile early on, how scrum looks in a financially related environment, and why company culture and your team are so important.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Amitha Pulijala, Vice President of Product at Vonage.  They discuss how APIs are the fuel of customer experiences, what it’s like running a business with developers as their core users, video services and the pandemic, and what differences they’re trying to encourage to promote innovation.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Victoriya Kalmanovich, Engineering Manager at Aspectiva.  They discuss operating NLP at scale, her experience joining a company post-acquisition, how it is to collaborate with such a huge enterprise from so far away, and the key to good software architecture.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Anton Drukh, Tech Executive Mentor.  They discuss diving deep into helping other engineering leaders…and helping them skip the mistakes that he made, feeling more comfortable in the production environment you built, the secret sauce he gave his own team to increase their own impact, and how impactful small problems can be at a large scale.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Jeff Davis, Enterprise Agility Evangelist at Evernorth.  They discuss what difference agile and shift-left made in coaching, why it’s okay to ruffle feathers, what to do about unplanned work in production, why saying yes means saying no, and being the quokka of the tech world.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Dotan Horovits, Principal Advocate at Logz.io.  They discuss his passion for open-source and communities…and how that led him to his current position, Open Observability Talks (his own podcast), his take on where OpenTelemetry stands now, and why users make the move from ElasticSearch to OpenSearch.


To learn more about the topics discussed in this episode:

• OpenObservability Talks podcast
• Open Source for Better Observability talk, Open Source Summit 2021
• OpenTelemetry guide
• State of OpenTelemetry talk at DevOpsDays TLV 
• Logz.io observability platform
• OpenSearch: The Open Source Successor of Elasticsearch
• OpenSearch Is Now Generally Available