Podcasts

Ted Young on Observability and the Release of OpenTelemetry 1.0

In this podcast Ted Young, director of developer education at Lightstep, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: observability (and the three pillars), the OpenTelemetry CNCF sandbox project and the 1.0 release, and how to build an effective telemetry collection platform.

Michelle Noorali on the Service Mesh Interface Spec and Open Service Mesh Project

In this podcast, Michelle Noorali, senior software engineer at Microsoft, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the service mesh interface (SMI) spec, the open service mesh (OSM) project, and the future of application development on Kubernetes.

Alois Reitbauer on Cloud Native Application Delivery, Keptn, and Observability

In this podcast, Alois Reitbauer sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the goals of the CNCF app delivery SIG; how cloud native continuous delivery tooling like Keptn can help engineers scale development and release processes; and the role of culture change, tooling, and adopting open standards, such as OpenTelemetry, within observability.

Liran Haimovitch on Understandability, Complexity, and Live Debugging

In this podcast, Liran Haimovitch, CTO at Rookout, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the concept of “understandability” and how this relates to building modern software systems, how complexity impacts a system’s understandability, and the benefits of live debugging tooling.

Rob Skillington on Metrics Collection, Uber’s M3, and OpenMetrics

In this podcast, Rob Skillington, co-founder and CTO at Chronosphere, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: metrics collection at scale, multi-dimensional metrics and high-cardinality, developer experience with platform tooling, and open standards related to observability.