Code RED
Dash0
How can you avoid your next outage? And what's next for observability?
Code RED is a podcast for developers, site reliability engineers, CTOs and anyone who's excited about the future of software management and observability.
Code...because we're talking about code! And RED for Requests, Errors, and Duration: the core metrics of observability.
Hosted by Mirko Novakovic, CEO of Dash0 and co-founder and former CEO of Instana, you'll hear from leaders around our industry about what they're building, what's next in observability, and what you can do today to avoid your next code red moment.
Code RED is a podcast for developers, site reliability engineers, CTOs and anyone who's excited about the future of software management and observability.
Code...because we're talking about code! And RED for Requests, Errors, and Duration: the core metrics of observability.
Hosted by Mirko Novakovic, CEO of Dash0 and co-founder and former CEO of Instana, you'll hear from leaders around our industry about what they're building, what's next in observability, and what you can do today to avoid your next code red moment.
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Oct 9, 2025 • 42min
#33 – Inside the AI SRE Boom: Anish Agarwal on Traversal, Finding Root Causes, and What’s Next for Observability
Traversal CEO and co-founder Anish Agarwal joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to unpack why AI-powered SRE agents are emerging as the next big shift in incident response. A former MIT researcher and now Columbia professor, Anish explains how causal machine learning and reinforcement learning shaped Traversal’s approach to finding root causes in complex systems. The conversation explores alert fatigue, multi-tool fragmentation, why accuracy builds trust, and how automation may soon take incident management from detection to full remediation.
Aug 28, 2025 • 32min
#32 – Data Observability at the Source: Ido Bronstein on Upriver, Bad Data, and How To Monitor A Future Full of AI Systems
Upriver co-founder and CEO Ido Bronstein joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic for a deep dive into the hidden risks of bad data and why “shift-left” observability is becoming essential. Ido shares why catching data issues at the source is critical for reliable pipelines, how Upriver helps engineers take ownership of data quality, and why AI adoption is making data accountability non-negotiable.
Aug 15, 2025 • 50min
#31 - Code RED LIVE: Beyond Hype - The Real Impact of AI on Observability
We’re taking the Code RED podcast public! Join Dash0 CEO Mirko Novakovic, CTO Ben Blackmore, and Principal AI Engineer Lariel Fernandes for a no-fluff look at AI in observability.We’ll dig into:⃗⃗⃗→ What agentic observability might actually look like→ How OpenTelemetry enables the AI ecosystem→ How AI shows up in real engineering workflows→ And what still needs to be built
Aug 7, 2025 • 37min
#30 – Behind the Dashboards: Chen Harel on OverOps, Coralogix, and Competing with the Observability Giants
Former Coralogix VP of Products and OverOps co-founder Chen Harel joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic for a candid look at the observability industry — past, present and future. They unpack the early days of production debugging, the realities of scaling in a crowded market and the behind-the-scenes of big-name acquisitions. From surviving startup cycles to navigating enterprise politics, Chen shares what he's learned from a decade of building, selling and staying competitive in one of tech’s most unique spaces.
Jul 17, 2025 • 42min
#29 – From OpsGenie to Actioner: Berkay Mollamustafaoglu on Customer-First Growth and the Next Era of Intelligence
Former OpsGenie founder-turned-investor and Actioner CEO Berkay Mollamustafaoglu joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to reflect on his journey from building a bootstrapped alerting platform in Turkey to a $295M Atlassian exit — and why he’s now betting on customer intelligence as the next frontier. Berkay also shares hard-won advice for global founders navigating building, funding, go-to-market and exiting on their own terms.
Jul 3, 2025 • 44min
#28 -Infrastructure in Flux: Marcin Wyszynski on OpenTofu, Observability, and Standardizing IaC at Scale
Spacelift co-founder Marcin Wyszynski joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to talk about the past, present, and future of Infrastructure as Code. They unpack the birth of OpenTofu and why standardizing observability – especially with OpenTelemetry – is critical for managing increasingly complex infrastructure. Marcin also explains Spacelift’s mission to build infrastructure tooling that plays well in today’s agentic ecosystem and why he thinks DevOps often misapplies AI.
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Jun 12, 2025 • 34min
#27 - The Hard Truths of Modern Observability: Lessons on Cost, Complexity and What Needs Fixing with Andrew Mallaband
Andrew Mallaband, an industry veteran and founder of Breakthrough Moments, joins to tackle the pressing issues in modern observability. He reveals how data overload and poor strategies hinder progress. The conversation highlights the rise of AI-powered SRE agents and the critical need for aligning data collection with business intentions. Mallaband discusses the importance of tracing in debugging microservices and the promise of open telemetry in enhancing AI-driven observability. His insights shed light on navigating the complex landscape of AI and cloud technologies.
May 29, 2025 • 33min
#26 - Rethinking Query Standards: Jacek Migdal on SQL Translation, Portability and Observability
Quesma CEO Jacek Migdal joins Mirko Novakovic to explore the future of querying and database interoperability. They dive into how Quesma rewrites SQL on the fly for cross-system compatibility, and they tackle the lack of query language standards in observability. Jacek also shares his thoughts on AI-assisted querying and why decoupling applications from databases is key to long-term flexibility.
May 15, 2025 • 40min
#25 - Beyond the Dashboard: Building Telemetry Pipelines for Petabyte-Scale Systems with Ozan Unlu of Edge Delta
Edge Delta founder and CEO Ozan Unlu joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to discuss the rise of telemetry pipelines and why this once-niche idea is now critical infrastructure. Ozan shares how his experience at Microsoft and Sumo Logic inspired him to challenge centralized observability models. They cover data tiering, pipeline-based architectures and the growing role of AI in curating massive telemetry streams.
May 1, 2025 • 41min
#24 - Tracing the Future: OpenTelemetry’s Evolution and Startup Lessons with Juraci Paixão Kröhling
Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OpenTelemetry governing board member, joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic for a deep dive into the evolution of observability. From the JBoss and Jaeger early days to his new startup OllyGarden, Juraci shares how OpenTelemetry is reshaping the way we monitor distributed systems. They explore the challenges of tracing adoption, the semantics around spans and transactions, and why logs are still dominant (but perhaps not for long). Juraci also details his journey from engineer to entrepreneur and the future of observability in an AI-first world.
