The Production-First Mindset

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Neta Rozy, Parametrix Insurance's Co-Founder and CTO.  They discuss why redundancy is key to everything they do, how to stay calm and collected during downtime, and evaluating products for their availability (and the tradeoffs you have to make).

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Ilai Gilenberg, Datorama's Director of R&D. They discuss how to make sure that the code meets their standards, if we should focus on product or engineering excellence, the mentality of figuring it out in the next sprint, and the paradigm of striving for tech excellence but seeing it as an enabler.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Wayne Haber, Gitlab’s Director of Engineering. They discuss how Wayne goes about differently operating his own SaaS version versus how he goes about releasing stuff for his customers, the dilemmas of the dual nature of the product and how they design features accordingly, deploying over 100x a day, and what growth engineering means for him.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with  Barak Schoster Goihman, CTO & Co-founder of Bridgecrew. They discuss modern cloud architectures and challenges,  why decision-making with the top-down approach doesn’t work for developer tool adoption,  how they went about making the open-source platform into one that’s fun to use, and the focus on the developer experience...and why it’s necessary.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, Tyler Jewell.  They discuss his 2021 report of the developer-led landscape, including: the developer landscape’s new and exciting trends, the fundamental shift in the flow of money from paper transactions to API transactions, and how developer empowerment drives business growth.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Founder and CEO of Akita Software, Jean Yang.  They discuss taking back the understanding of your system, a different approach to deploying observability, the DevOps revolution, and what it looks like to be the python of observability.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with CEO and Co-Founder of Infracost, Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini. They discuss the steep learning curve of growing open-source projects, the complexity of cloud pricing, what adopting open-source really means, and why it's essential to focus on the end customer and delivering real value.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with CTO and Co-Founder of daily.dev, Ido Shamun. They discuss bringing order to the chaos that is developer news, having over 100k users as a single engineer, and what it’s like operating an open-source SaaS platform.

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with John Kodumal, CTO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly.  They discuss maintaining quality and consistency in the product as your organization scales, getting to the nirvana of deploying a hundred times a day (and how to achieve that), and the tradeoffs to take when building your engineering org.   

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Roi Dover, VP of Engineering at OwnBackup.  They discuss how to serve customers better, the evolution from a single product to a multi-product company (and what that means for your R&D team), and how to ensure your R&D team has the proper metrics...and that they’re useable.