O11ycast
Exploring the observability side of software development.
Latest episodes
Jul 20, 2021 • 29min
Ep. #42, Continuous Profiling with Dmitry Filimonov of Pyroscope
In episode 42 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Dmitry Filimonov of Pyroscope. They discuss continuous profiling practices, use cases, and tools, as well as insights on how data is profiled at Pyroscope and how profiling resolution is measured.
Jul 6, 2021 • 35min
Ep. #41, Organizing Conferences with Aaron Aldrich of Red Hat
In episode 41 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Aaron Aldrich of Red Hat. Together they pull back the curtain on organizing conferences, accelerating feedback cycles, multi-tenancy debugging, and getting started with new tools.
Jun 17, 2021 • 40min
Ep. #40, Player Experience with Nick Herring of CCP Games
In episode 40 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Nick Herring of CCP Games. They discuss the challenges faced by engineers in the game space, the debugging procedure at CCP, and tactics for adopting large system changes.
Jun 4, 2021 • 30min
Ep. #39, Sell The Sizzle with Jordan Simonovski of Atlassian
In episode 39 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jordan Simonovski of Atlassian. They explore the differences between tracing and logging, tactics for measuring reliability, and the journey of the observability team at Atlasssian.
May 21, 2021 • 37min
Ep. #38, Infrastructure Changes with Andy Davies of Reaktor
In episode 38 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Andy Davies of Reaktor. Their conversation covers the importance of instrumentation, the prevalence of structured logging, and the potential risks of modifying database infrastructure.
Apr 30, 2021 • 31min
Ep. #37, Synchronization Layers and Logs with Garry Shutler of Cronofy
In episode 37 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Garry Shutler of Cronofy. Together they pull back the curtain on building scheduling tools, making observability tools accessible to teams, and keeping deploys boring.
Apr 15, 2021 • 28min
Ep. #36, Resilience Engineering with Jacob Scott of Stripe
In episode 36 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jacob Scott of Stripe about the need for SRE teams, prioritizing customer happiness, and the limitations of distributed tracing tools.
Mar 12, 2021 • 34min
Ep. #35, Government Software Systems with Mark Ferlatte of Truss
In episode 35 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Mark Ferlatte of Truss. They discuss government software system failures and successes including Healthcare.gov and the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Feb 25, 2021 • 33min
Ep. #34, Diminishing Complexity with Jaana Dogan of AWS
In episode 34 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jaana Dogan of AWS. They discuss Jaana’s career journey, life before observability tools, and reducing system complexity within large organizations.
Jan 29, 2021 • 32min
Ep. #33, Information Accessibility with Katy Farmer of CircleCI
In episode 33 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Katy Farmer of CircleCI. They discuss learned helplessness, understanding complicated systems through direct experience, and championing devs to fail gracefully.
