Best Dotan Horovits Podcasts (2024)

1
Redis is No Longer Open Source. Is Valkey the Successor? - OpenObservability Talks S5E01 1:00:25

8d ago1:00:25

1:00:25

Redis is no longer open source. Just a few months ago, in March 2024, the project was relicensed, leaving its vast community confused. But the community did not give up, and started work to fork Redis to keep it open. In this episode, we delve into the Valkey project, a prominent fork of Redis, established under the Linux Foundation, which brought …

1
FOSS in Flux: Redis Relicensing and the Future of Open Source: OpenObservability Talks S4E12 1:01:35

1M ago1:01:35

1:01:35

In the past few years we’ve been witnessing tectonic shifts in the open source realm, with established projects taken off open source or otherwise turning to the dark side. On the other hand, we’ve seen active forks aiming to keep these projects open gaining momentum. What does it mean for the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement? Is this …

1
KubeCon Paris Highlights and AI Spotlight on K8sGPT - OpenObservability Talks S4E11 1:01:30

3M ago1:01:30

1:01:30

KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris was the biggest event of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to date, with over 12k participants. Have you missed it? We've got you covered! Join not one but two CNCF Ambassadors as they explore the latest and greatest highlights from the event that every tech enthusiast is talking about. But that's not all! We…

1
Charting New Territory: OpenTelemetry Embraces Profiling - OpenObservability Talks S4E10 1:06:45

3M ago1:06:45

1:06:45

OpenTelemetry is expanding beyond the traditional “three pillars of observability” and introduces a groundbreaking addition to its signals - Continuous Profiling. The new Profiling Special Interest Group (SIG) that was formed to lead the topic has already made significant advancements, to be featured at KubeCon Europe. Join us in this special panel…

1
Decoding .NET8: Unveiling Cloud-Native Observability - OpenObservability Talks S4E09 1:05:29

4M ago1:05:29

1:05:29

The .NET programming language is taking cloud native deployment and observability seriously, and most notably with the recent announcement of .NET Aspire stack unveiled at the recent .NET Conf 2023. In this episode, we reviewed the open source maintainers’ journey to making .NET a "by default, out of the box observable platform", as ASP.NET Core cr…

1
Scaling Platform Engineering: Shopify’s Blueprint - OpenObservability Talks S4E08 1:00:16

6M ago1:00:16

1:00:16

In this episode, join us as we delve into the intricate world of Platform Engineering with Aparna Subramanian, Director of Production Engineering at Shopify. Discover how Shopify, a powerhouse in e-commerce, masters the art of scaling platform engineering. Gain invaluable insights into their strategies, innovations, and lessons learned while naviga…

1
Kubernetes and Beyond: A Year-End Reflection with Kelsey Hightower - OpenObservability Talks S4E07 1:01:05

7M ago1:01:05

1:01:05

In this special episode we wrapped up the year 2023 with none other than the cloud-native maestro, Kelsey Hightower! We looked into the highs and lows of the tech landscape, exploring Kelsey's insights on containerization and beyond. Tune in as we unravel the year that was and reflect on what lies ahead for Kubernetes and cloud computing. Kelsey ha…

1
KubeCon NA Highlights and Istio Spotlight with Lin Sun - OpenObservability Talks S4E06 1:00:12

7M ago1:00:12

1:00:12

Have you missed KubeCon North America in Chicago? This one’s for you! In this episode, we explored the latest and greatest highlights from the event that every tech enthusiast is talking about. From cutting-edge innovations to industry insights, we've got the broad spectrum covered. But that's not all! We'll also zoomed in on Istio, the popular ser…

1
PromCon Recap: Unveiling Perses and Prometheus Ecosystem Updates - OpenObservability Talks S4E05 1:11:07

8M ago1:11:07

1:11:07

PromCon, the flagship yearly event of the Prometheus community, took place in Berlin 28-29 September 2023, and we’re here to bring you the highlights from the Prometheus ecosystem, including the pivotal decision on Prometheus 3.0! Brace yourselves for some exciting announcements! We also delved into the latest addition to the ecosystem, Perses proj…

1
Continuous Observability: Shedding Light on CI/CD Pipelines - OpenObservability Talks S4E02 1:00:29

8M ago1:00:29

1:00:29

DevOps is not just about operating the software in production, but also about releasing that software to production. Well-functioning CI/CD pipelines are critical for the business, and this calls for quality observability, to handle broken and flaky pipeline runs effectively.On this episode I hosted Oleg Nenashev, a core maintainer and board member…

1
Terraform is no longer open source. Is OpenTofu the successor? - OpenObservability Talks S4E04 1:09:41

10M ago1:09:41

1:09:41

Terraform is no longer open source. This is the news we got last month (August 2023), when HashiCorp announced its decision to relicense its open source tools, including Terraform, Vault, Packer, Consul, Vagrant and others, into Business Source License 1.1.The community, led by active Terraform-based vendors, gathered up to create a fork of Terrafo…

1
What's New with Fluentd & Fluent Bit - OpenObservability Talks S4E03 58:38

10M ago58:38

58:38

Fluentd and Fluent Bit are two highly popular open source projects for data collection and log forwarding in the realm of observability. Fluentd's flexibility and scalability have led to seamless integration with diverse applications and data sources, while Fluent Bit's lightweight and efficient log forwarding have made it a preferred choice for mo…

1
eBay’s Journey to Planet-Scale Observability with Open Source - OpenObservability Talks S4E01 1:00:21

1y ago1:00:21

1:00:21

eBay is a high scale end user of open source observability. Collecting telemetry from millions of endpoints, and running thousands of queries per second, presents serious scaling challenges. eBay has chosen to use an open source stack to meet those challenges. On this episode I hosted Vijay Samuel, Observability Architect at eBay, to hear about the…

1
From Spotify to Open Source: The Backstory of Backstage - OpenObservability Talks S3E12 47:20

1y ago47:20

47:20

With over 1,000 companies using it and 21.5K+ stars on GitHub, the Backstage open source project is quickly becoming a go-to tool for managing developer infrastructure. In this episode, I’ll sit down with Lee Mills, a Senior Engineering Manager from Spotify's Backstage project, to learn more about how the open source platform is revolutionizing the…

1
Live from KubeCon: Insider Insights with CNCF's Head of Ecosystem - OpenObservability Talks S3E11 27:30

1y ago27:30

27:30

This is a special episode, live from the KubeCon show floor in Amsterdam. Join us to hear the hot updates from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 as well as insider insights from the CNCF’s head of ecosystem, Taylor Dolezal. Taylor works on infrastructure tools that enable innovation. He specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, public clouds, and di…

1
Cloud Native Unplugged: A Fireside Chat with CNCF's CTO - OpenObservability Talks S3E10 1:05:02

1+ y ago1:05:02

1:05:02

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is the home of the most prominent open source projects used today, such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Linkerd and more. These projects fuel today’s cloud native architectures and software release pipelines. With its immense growth, it has become difficult to keep tabs on the hundreds of new and evol…

1
FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost with OpenCost - OpenObservability Talks S3E09 1:01:21

1+ y ago1:01:21

1:01:21

Many organizations struggle in understanding and monitoring the costs of their Kubernetes workloads, cloud infrastructure and cloud native applications. Moreover, different cloud providers use different conventions, which makes it difficult to compare across vendors and to monitor cost in multi-cloud environments. The lack of cost observability and…

1
Is Kubernetes Monitoring Flawed? - OpenObservability Talks S3E08 1:00:33

1+ y ago1:00:33

1:00:33

A 3-node Kubernetes cluster with Prometheus will ship around 40k active series by default! Do we really need all that data? The current state of Kubernetes open source monitoring is in need of improvement. High churn rate of pod metrics, proliferation of metrics with low usage, and configuration complexity are some of the issues that need to be add…

1
What's new in the Prometheus ecosystem? - OpenObservability Talks S3E07 1:04:28

1+ y ago1:04:28

1:04:28

So much has been going on with the Prometheus project and its ecosystem, that it’s time to have a proper catch up. And there’s no better person to walk us through it than Julien Pivotto, who debriefed the community last month at PromCon. Julien Pivotto is a maintainer of Prometheus, the open source monitoring and alerting solution. He is the co-fou…

1
Meta’s data driven approach to observability - OpenObservability Talks S3E06 1:00:20

1+ y ago1:00:20

1:00:20

At Meta (Facebook, Instragram et al) everything is data, and data driven approach is the rule, from product to engineering, from HR to finance. This is also how the team at Meta treats observability. Let’s see how we treat observability as a data analytics problem, and what you can implement, even if you’re not a hyperscaler. On this episode I’ll h…

1
Platform Engineering: DevOps evolution or a fancy rename? - OpenObservability Talks S3E05 58:15

1+ y ago58:15

58:15

Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand for DevOps or SRE? And how does observability pertain to platform engineering? On this episode …

1
Where Are My App’s Traces?? Instrumentation in Practice - OpenObservability Talks S3E04 1:00:26

2y ago1:00:26

1:00:26

Instrumentation is that black magic that makes our application emit traces, logs, metrics or other telemetry. How does it work? What options are available in different programming languages, such as Java, Python and Go? What does OpenTelemetry offer in this domain? On this episode of OpenObservability Talks I hosted Eden Federman, Co-Founder & CTO …

1
SigNoz: Open-source observability with Pranay - OpenObservability Talks S3E03 56:17

2y ago56:17

56:17

In this episode, hosted by Jonah Kowall we are excited to introduce Pranay Prateek the co-founder and creator of SigNoz to the audience. He is an entrepreneur who has been building an interesting and exciting open-source observability platform. The goal is a unified interface and data storage system which is scalable and manageable much more easily…

1
Expensive Observability: The Cardinality Challenge - OpenObservability Talks S3E02 1:00:03

2y ago1:00:03

1:00:03

We all collect logs, metrics and perhaps traces and other data types, in support of our observability. But this can get expensive pretty quickly, especially in microservices based systems, in what is commonly known as “the cardinality problem”. On this episode of OpenObservability Talks I’ll host Ben Sigelman, co-founder and the GM of Lightstep, to…

1
OpenTelemetry and the Vision for Unified Open Observability - OpenObservability Talks S3E01 1:00:38

2y ago1:00:38

1:00:38

OpenTelemetry is one of the most fascinating and ambitious open source projects of this era. It’s currently the second most active project in the CNCF (the Cloud Native Computing Foundation), with only Kubernetes being more active. The entire industry is aligning behind this project, including incumbent monitoring vendors that were deeply vested in…

1
Observability for Developers Demystified - OpenObservability Talks E2E12 58:32

2y ago58:32

58:32

Developers hate monitoring, but we need it. We need it in many points of the software development lifecycle: before deprecating an API, before launching a new feature, after launching the feature, and more. In fact, monitoring needs can vary much more than the classic Ops monitoring. In this episode I’ll host Liran Haimovitch to discuss how to dete…

1
OpenSearch 2.0 and beyond with Eli - OpenObservability Talks E2E11 1:01:12

2y ago1:01:12

1:01:12

OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. The OpenSearch project started just over a year ago and is now the open-source alternative to ELK, which is no longer open source. The team has spent much of the last year getting the project going, but the…

1
SLO Driven Engineering: from Dev to Prod - OpenObservability Talks S2E10 59:56

2+ y ago59:56

59:56

Google’s SRE Book popularized the concept of Service Level Objective (SLO) and the SLO-driven approach. But what does it really mean to make SLO driven decisions? How can we generate observability and synchronize teams around joint SLOs? And how can we automate SLOs and integrate them into the software release pipeline? In this episode I’ll host An…

1
Building web-scale observability at Slack, Pinterest & Twitter - OpenObservability Talks S2E09 58:39

2+ y ago58:39

58:39

What does it take to build observability in a web-scale company such as Slack, Pinterest and Twitter? On this episode of OpenObsevability Talks I'll host Suman Karumuri to hear how he built these systems from the ground up on these #BigTech co's, about his recent research papers and more. Suman Karumuri is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer and the tech…

1
SaaS Observability Done Right - OpenObservability Talks S2E08 58:19

2+ y ago58:19

58:19

SaaS (software as a service) is a popular model for many businesses today. SaaS businesses need agility to move fast and remain competitive. This means agility in the software IT stack, but also agility in the business models and product-led growth (PLG). Observability plays a key role in enabling SaaS organizations to move fast. Achieving this agi…

1
Prometheus Pitfalls and the Rise of Continuous Profiling - OpenObservability Talks S2E07 1:01:48

2+ y ago1:01:48

1:01:48

We’ve grown to rely on “the three pillars” for observability - logs, metrics and traces. Popular frameworks such as Prometheus have helped popularize these practices. But now people are starting to realize that it’s not enough. On this episode Dotan Horovits will host Frederic Branczyk for a discussion about the unspoken pitfalls of Prometheus and …

1
BPF origin story and the future of telemetry analytics OpenObservability Talks S2E06 1:02:12

2+ y ago1:02:12

1:02:12

OpenObservability Talks S2E06: Hosting Steve McCanne We hear a lot about BPF in the industry today, applying this flexible technology to solve so many problems from routing, proxying, and of course observability. Correlating events and data from the operating system level across distributed systems is a key problem for the industry and community to…

1
SRE at Google: Planet-scale observability - OpenObservability Talks S2E05 59:59

2+ y ago59:59

59:59

Have you ever wondered how services are operated at Google’s scale? Here’s your opportunity to find out. Ramón will share how his SRE team runs Google’s identity services, and the elaborate end-to-end observability they use to achieve it with strict SLA. We’ll also get a glimpse at the birthplace of Kubernetes, OpenCensus, Dapper, Monarch and other…

1
Observability Into Your Business And FinOps - OpenObservability Talks S2E04 1:06:47

3y ago1:06:47

1:06:47

Observability is becoming a common practice for DevOps teams monitoring and troubleshooting IT systems. But Observability can offer much more than that. More advanced usage of telemetry, and in particular distributed tracing and its context propagation mechanism, can uncover insights into your business performance and can help solve business and Fi…

1
Fluentd for logging and metrics and path forward - OpenObservability Talks S2E03 46:21

3y ago46:21

46:21

In this episode, we’ll talk with industry veteran and product manager Anurag Gupta who has been working in open source observability for over 4 years. We will go into depth on his background, and how he views the ecosystem of open source. Then we will dig into the Fluentd and Fluent Bit projects and discuss some of the amazing innovations coming fr…

1
Prometheus, OpenMetrics, and the CNCF Observability Ecosystem - OpenObservability Talks S2E02 1:09:59

3y ago1:09:59

1:09:59

The CNCF has a rich suite to address monitoring Kubernetes and cloud-native workloads. First of which is Prometheus, which is widely adopted, with great out-of-the-box compatibility with Kubernetes. But under the CNCF you can also find OpenMetrics that offers standardization of the metrics format, Thanos and Cortex which offer long-term storage for…

1
Codeless Kubernetes Observability with eBPF - OpenObservability Talks S2E01 56:51

3y ago56:51

56:51

Current observability practice is largely based on manual instrumentation, which creates a barrier to entry for many wishing to implement observability in their environment. This is especially true in Kubernetes environments and microservices architecture. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is an exciting new technology for Linux kernel level i…

1
OpenSearch: The Open Source Successor of Elasticsearch? - OpenObservability Talks S1E12 1:01:19

3y ago1:01:19

1:01:19

OpenSearch project was born out of the passion for Elasticsearch and Kibana and the desire to keep them open source in the face of Elastic’s decision to close-source them. After a couple of months of hard work led by AWS, the Beta release was announced earlier this month under Apache2 license. On this episode of OpenObservability Talks I hosted Kyl…

1
Diving deep into Jaeger and OpenTelemetry with Juraci Paixão Kröhling - OpenObservability Talks S1E11 56:29

3y ago56:29

56:29

We are thrilled to have Juraci Kröhling a Software Engineer at Red Hat; CNCF, Maintainer for Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. He will be live and in-person this month on the podcast in a discussion with Jonah Kowall who is the CTO at logz.io and contributor to Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch.

1
Interoperability of open-source observability and new signal in the neighborhood, profiling! - OpenObservability Talks S1E10 58:46

3+ y ago58:46

58:46

Join Jonah Kowall and Bartek Plotka for a discussion on the latest happening topics on open source observability. Bartek works on many projects in open source and is Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat; CNCF SIG Observability Tech Lead. He is very active in the community as one of the leaders of Prometheus, Thanos, OpenMetrics, and many other pr…

1
How Much Observability Is Enough? - OpenObservability Talks S1E9 59:49

3+ y ago59:49

59:49

The ninth of our OpenObservability Talks has Jujhar Singh, Global DevSecOps Practice Lead at The Economist. How much observability is enough? What is the investment required to achieve it? How can we drive observability in the company in a measured and pragmatic way? This was first live-streamed on 25 February 2021 and the video is available at htt…

1
Put the OPEN in Observability: Elasticsearch and Kibana relicensing and community chat - OpenObservability Talks S1E8 37:57

3+ y ago37:57

37:57

The eighth of our OpenObservability Talks has Tomer Levy, CEO & Founder of Logz.io. The community is in turmoil around Elastic's announced plan to take Elasticsearch and Kibana off open source. In this episode, both Dotan and Mike have the pleasure of hosting Tomer where we discuss the recent news of Elastic moving Elasticsearch and Kibana to a dua…

1
An Observability chat with Andy Thurai - OpenObservability Talks S1E7 44:20

3+ y ago44:20

44:20

The seventh of our OpenObservability Talks has Andy Thurai, Senior Analyst at GigaOM. Jonah Kowall, CTO and Andy Thurai will talk about Andy's career and journey as a vendor and an analyst. We will discuss the observability market along with APM and other aspects of monitoring. We will then dive into the open-source ecosystem and how this is changi…

1
All Metrics Are Wrong, Some Are Useful - OpenObservability Talks S1E6 1:13:05

3+ y ago1:13:05

1:13:05

The sixth of our OpenObservability Talks has Avishai Ish-Shalom, Developer Advocate at ScyllaDB. We trust our metrics to show us the status of our system and where it misbehaves. But do our metrics show us what really happened? You'd be surprised how often it's not the case. On this episode we discussed the math behind metrics, some common misconce…

1
Microservices Observability for Developers and Pre-Production - OpenObservability Talks S1E5 58:11

3+ y ago58:11

58:11

The fifth of our OpenObservability Talks has Michael Haberman, CTO & Co-Founder of Aspecto. There's a lot of discussion on how to achieve observability in microservices. Most of the discussion revolves around production workflows such as granular monitoring or debugging of complex environments. A much less discussed aspect is the development stage,…

1
Distributed Tracing at Uber-Scale - OpenObservability TalksS1E4 58:49

4y ago58:49

58:49

The fourth of our OpenObservability Talks has Albert Teoh from the Jaeger project. Distributed tracing has been gaining momentum with the growing popularity of microservices. Jaeger is a popular open source tool originally developed at Uber and now part of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). Albert had been working at Uber for the past 2.…

1
Long-Term Metrics with M3 and Prometheus - OpenObservability Talks S1E3 53:39

4y ago53:39

53:39

Episode 3 of OpenObservability Talks, where we'll be hosting Matt Schallert of Chronosphere. The topic for this episode is Long-Term Metrics with M3 and Prometheus. Prometheus is the de facto solution when getting started with metrics, supporting use cases where a single node can store the entire dataset. When it comes to scaling out workloads or s…

1
A chat with Paul Bruce and Jonah Kowall about the OpenTelemetry community - OpenObservability Talks S1E2 1:11:29

4y ago1:11:29

1:11:29

Episode 2 of OpenObservability Talks, where we'll be hosting Paul Bruce of Neotys and Jonah Kowall of Logz.io. Our topic of discussion today is OpenTelemetry and the thriving community around it. This was first streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability on July 30th and the full video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtxYgT-…

1
Five Tips on Application Monitoring with Prometheus - OpenObservability Talks S1E1 39:33

4y ago39:33

39:33

Welcome to the first-ever OpenObservability Talks! This was first streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability on June 25th and the full video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otb57MNZfKA You'll get an introduction to the series, a talk by Jack Neely of 42 Lines on Five Tips on Application Monitoring with Prometheus, and a run…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Dotan Horovits Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Quick Reference Guide