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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Jan 9, 2025 • 40min
#16 - Observability 2.0: The Birth of Modern Observability with Christine Yen
Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb.io, joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to discuss the code red moment that inspired Honeycomb, the importance and coining of the term "high cardinality data", how the modern understanding of observability was formed, and more.
Dec 19, 2024 • 40min
#15 - The Open Source Frontier: Dynatrace's Evolving Vision with Alois Reitbauer
Alois Reitbauer, Chief Technology Strategist at Dynatrace, joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to discuss the role of open source standards in advancing the observability industry, even for vendors with proprietary solutions. They explore Dynatrace's AI capabilities, innovations like Keptn and OpenFeature, and the company's role in initiatives like OpenTelemetry.
Dec 5, 2024 • 33min
#14 - Dev-Driven Security: Building an AppSec Solution with Eli Cohen
Eli Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Helios, sits down with Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to discuss building a tool to help engineers prioritize code vulnerabilities, pivoting to the security space, how he sees developer-led security, and the Helios acquisition by Snyk.
Nov 21, 2024 • 36min
#13 - OpenTelemetry Origins: The Evolution and Horizon of Observability with Ben Sigelman
Ben Sigelman, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightstep, joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to share his journey helping launch Dapper and Monarch at Google, a nightmare New Year’s Day troubleshooting Google Weather, and how he views OpenTelemetry and observability evolving alongside AI and LLMs.
Nov 14, 2024 • 36min
#12 - Code First: Developer-Led Testing and the Future of Monitoring Automation with Hannes Lenke
Checkly CEO Hannes Lenke joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to discuss his “monitoring as code” philosophy, how Checkly lets developers take ownership over end user testing and his view on AI’s role in the future of APM tools.
Oct 24, 2024 • 38min
#11 - Optimal Performance: Leveraging Observability for Cost Savings with Luca Forni
Akamas CEO and Co-Founder Luca Forni joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to break down how the tool evaluates and optimizes your full stack to create “mechanical sympathy,” why performance beats cost savings every time, and how Akamas’s AI improves cloud-native applications without ever touching their code.
Oct 10, 2024 • 36min
#10 - Engineering Developer Success: Platform Architecture and the Rise of the IDP with Kaspar von Grünberg
Humanitec CEO Kaspar von Grünberg joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to break down the origins and importance of the Internal Developer Platform, when your engineering team should consider building an IDP and why platform engineer is a key job for the future.
Sep 26, 2024 • 34min
#9 - The Observability On-Ramp: Early Monitoring Made Easy with Micha Hernandez Van Leuffen
Fiberplane founder and CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to walk through his new API debugging tool, his view on metrics’ role in observability and why he’s investing in the ‘building blocks of tomorrow.’
Sep 12, 2024 • 36min
#8 - Data to Decisions: Using Observability and Automation to Boost Business Outcomes with Bhaskar Sunkara
Bicycle founder and CEO Bhaskar Sunkara joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to explore his origins at AppDynamics, how his new AI-driven tool transforms raw data into actionable business insights and how observability can be leveled up to the business tier and boost company success.
Aug 29, 2024 • 41min
#7 - Own Your Stack: How Flexible Observability Empowers Engineers and Shrinks Downtime with Ariel Assaraf
Coralogix CEO Ariel Assaraf join’s Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to break down his team’s engineer ownership model, how Coralogix has grown to serve as both a product and a flexible platform, and the future of OpenTelemetry in the observability industry.
