The Production-First Mindset

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Idan Fridman, Director of Engineering at DraftKings.  They discuss his experience having his company be acquired, working with product stakeholders and finding common ground, building the culture at Blue Ribbon vs at DraftKings, and building the first satellite team.

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Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect

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Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Or Hiltch, VP of Engineering at JLL Technologies.  They discuss how dentistry shaped his love of tech, working with - and processing - large amounts of data, why Serverless should always win, and the tradeoff between ease of delivery and friction.

Developer-First Observability
Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect

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Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Alon Ashkenazi, VP of Engineering at Indeni.  They discuss the next-gen of infrastructure as code security, complicated cloud architectures and how to control the different aspects of them, and helping your team manage the combination of new and old.

Developer-First Observability
Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect

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Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  JP Beaudry, CTO of 2U.  They discuss how you redefine open-source within your company,  what to do to make the open-source community feel more involved, and balancing market demands with internal technical hygiene.

Developer-First Observability
Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect

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Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Barak Yoresh, Head of iOS Platform at Lightricks.  They discuss how things are different for mobile offerings than SaaS, how working with Apple feels like, how to go about monitoring your apps deployed on millions of devices, and what happens when you break the funnel.

Developer-First Observability
Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect

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Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Nir Rubenstein, Chief Architect at Appsflyer.  They discuss why they prioritized using functional code, scaling from 3 engineers to 300, how the main difficulties of working at Appsflyer revolve around the sheer scale of data they work with, and formulating a game plan for migrating databases.

Developer-First Observability
Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect

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Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Ron Teeter, Vice President Of Engineering at Jobvite.  They discuss how valuable diversity is in tech, where the trigger point is on new technology, tech debt: how much can you afford to borrow vs what you need to pay off, why your devs need full stack observability...and how to get it, and how Rookout has helped their team to cut down hours of waiting time.

Developer-First Observability
Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect

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Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Michael Gillett, Author and Head of Development at Win Technologies and proud member of the Betway Group.  They discuss the modern software development cycle, Michael’s new book on feature management (which we highly recommend taking a look at for yourself!), the mindset shift from focusing on code to focusing on production, and their unique approach to maintaining site reliability.

Developer-First Observability
Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect

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Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Suman Karumuri, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Slack. They discuss the tools and techniques that make up modern observability, living through a major incident at Slack...and what was done to nurse Slack back to health, Suman’s personal impact on the realm of Observability, and following the questions to get answers, fast.

Developer-First Observability
Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect

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Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Anais Urlichs, an SRE at Civo.  They discuss her journey into the world of cloud-native, being a part of the Kubernetes-focused generation, if you really need to implement it to your production environment...and if it's worth going that extra mile, and how to properly use Kubernetes without exposing yourself to any risks.

Developer-First Observability
Rookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collect

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