PurePerformance

PurePerformance
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PurePerformance

The brutal truth about digital performance engineering and operations. Andreas (aka Andi) Grabner and Brian Wilson are veterans of the digital performance world. Combined they have seen too many applications not scaling and performing up to expectations. With more rapid deployment models made possible through continuous delivery and a mentality shift sparked by DevOps they feel it’s time to share their stories. In each episode, they and their guests discuss different topics concerning performance, ranging from common performance problems for specific technology platforms to best practices in development, testing, deploying and monitoring software performance and user experience. Be prepared to learn a lot about metrics. Andi & Brian both work at Dynatrace, where they get to witness more real world customer performance issues than they can TPS report at.

  1. In the AI Age being Smart is not enough for Tech Leadership with Marian Kamenistak

    JUN 9

    In the AI Age being Smart is not enough for Tech Leadership with Marian Kamenistak

    "15 years ago it was enough to be smart - going forward its not a differentiator - being smart will just make you average!". But what is it? What makes great leaders worth following and how do they achieve tripling their value while others keep waiting for their 5% raise? 4 years ago Marian Kamenistak launched the Engineering Leadership Community out of Prague, Czech Republic. Feeding from his experience in the Silicon Valley this community has grown to 1500 members with the mission to create "Leaders worth following". Tune in and hear from Marian on how to think and talk about value impact vs being held up with trying to achieve technical perfection. Why its important to build a network around you, the difference between mentorship and management as well as how to proof the value to your leadership that you bring to the organization! Links we discussed today Marian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariankamenistak/ Engineering Leadership Conference: https://www.elc-conference.io/ Engineering Leadership Community: https://www.engineeringleaders.io/ The Leadership Pipeline Book: https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Pipeline-Build-Powered-Company/dp/0470894563

    40 min
  2. The Research Behind the AI and Observability Innovation with Otmar Ertl and Martin Flechl

    MAY 26

    The Research Behind the AI and Observability Innovation with Otmar Ertl and Martin Flechl

    Scientific research is the foundation of many innovative solutions in any field. Did you know that Dynatrace runs its own Research Lab within the Campus of the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria - just 2 kilometers away from our global engineering headquarter?  What started in 2020 has grown to 20 full time researchers and many more students that do research on topics such as GenAI, Agentic AI, Log Analytics, Procesesing of Large Data Sets, Sampling Strategies, Cloud Native Security or Memory and Storage Optimizations. Tune in and hear from Otmar and Martin how they are researching on the N+2 generation of Observability and AI, how they are contributing to open source projects such as OpenTelemetry, and what their predictions are when AI is finally taking control of us humans! To learn more about their work check out these links: Martin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mflechl/ Otmar's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmar-ertl/ Dynatrace Research Lab: https://careers.dynatrace.com/locations/linz/#__researchLab

    51 min
  3. Organizational Sustainability through Platform Engineering with Lesley Cordero

    MAY 12

    Organizational Sustainability through Platform Engineering with Lesley Cordero

    As a leader that wants to optimize an organization you are bound to fail if you isolate social (culture and people) and technical (tools and process) changes. When we ask Lesley Cordero, Staff Engineer at The New York Times how to solve this dilemma she answers: "Platform Engineering, it can drive organizational sustainability by practicing sociotechnical principles that provide a community driven support system for application developers using our standardized shared platform architecture" Tune in to our latest episode and learn more about the importance of leadership to continuously keep up and balance the tension between "Developers" and "Operations", between "End User Experience" and "Developer Experience" and ultimately between "Culture and People and "Tools and Processes" Links we discussed Lesley's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleycordero/ GOTO Conference Talk => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-XrUONJ-o  QCon 2025 Talk Details: https://qconlondon.com/presentation/apr2025/platform-engineering-practice-sociotechnical-excellence  DevOpsCon 2024 Talk Details: https://devopscon.io/business-company-culture/platform-engineering-devops/

    42 min
  4. Run Towards the Fire: Why we should love incidents with Lisa Karlin Curtis

    APR 28

    Run Towards the Fire: Why we should love incidents with Lisa Karlin Curtis

    Do you plan for incidents? Do you have a time / cost budget for it in your sprint or quarterly planning? Do you have engineers that are "interruptible"? We discussed those and more questions with Lisa Karlin Curtis, Founding Engineer at incident.io who teaches us why we need to think differently about dealing with incidents! In our discussion we learn why modern incident management embraces more incidents that are publicly shared within an organization to foster learning. We learn about how to train more people to become incident responders, how to triage and categorize incidents, how to better plan for them and how to best report on them We also touch on AI - and how AI-generated code will eventually result in more Incidents which we should use as an opportunity to learn and improve our engineering process P.S: This was our 10th-anniversary podcast episode!! Here the links we discussed in the podcast: Lisa's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-karlin-curtis-a4563920/ Her talk at ELC Prague: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18536WBHBcPEppEeXXP7o5UQOX2XfWoGmfds2CHegHq4/edit?slide=id.g3434e0cba65_0_0#slide=id.g3434e0cba65_0_0 Incident Playbook: https://incident.io/guide

    47 min
  5. MCPs (Model Context Protocol) are not that magic, but they enable magic things with Dana Harrison

    APR 14

    MCPs (Model Context Protocol) are not that magic, but they enable magic things with Dana Harrison

    MCPs (Model Context Protocol) is an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to the the systems where data lives. But you probably already knew that if you have followed the recent hype around this topic after Anthropic made their announcement end of 2024. To learn more about that MCPs are not that magic, but enable "magic" new use cases to speed up efficiency of engineers we have invited Dana Harrison, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Telus. Dana goes into the use cases he and his team have been testing out over the past months to increase developer efficiency. In our conversation we also talk about the difference between local and remote MCPs, the importance of keeping resiliance in mind as MCPs are connecting to many different API backends and how we can and should observe the interactions with MCPs. Links we discussed Antrohopic Blog: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol Dana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danaharrisonsre/overlay/about-this-profile/

    47 min
  6. The History & Power of Distributed Tracing with Christoph Neumueller & Thomas Rothschaedl

    MAR 31

    The History & Power of Distributed Tracing with Christoph Neumueller & Thomas Rothschaedl

    So you think Distributed Tracing is the new thing? Well - its not! But its never been as exciting as today! In this episode we combine 50 years of Distributed Tracing experience across our guests and hosts. We invited Christoph Neumueller and Thomas Rothschaedl who have seen the early days of agent-based instrumentation, how global standards like the W3C Trace Context allowed tracing to connect large enterprise systems and how OpenTelemetry is commoditizing data collection across all tech stacks. Tune in and learn about the difference between spans and traces, why collecting the data is only part of the story, how to combat the challenge when dealing with too much data and how traces relate and connect to logs, metrics and events. Links we discussed YouTube with Christoph: LINK WILL FOLLOW ONCE VIDEO IS POSTED Christoph's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophneumueller/ Thomas's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rothschaedl/

    56 min
  7. An Inside Look into Platform Engineering for Architects with the authors Max, Hilliary & Andi

    MAR 17

    An Inside Look into Platform Engineering for Architects with the authors Max, Hilliary & Andi

    In the ever-changing IT world, creating content that stays relevant for long is hard. One of the objectives of "Platform Engineering for Architects: Crafting Modern Platforms as a Product" was to stay timeless by providing practical examples of use cases not necessarily tied to current technology trends. The book focuses on the importance of building a platform with a purpose, making the impact measurable, and ensuring the platform continuously evolves by continuously including the end users (the engineering teams) in the evolution of the platform. Tune in to this episode and hear from Max Körbächer (Founder of Liquid Reply), Hilliary Lipsig (Senior Principal SRE at RedHat), and Andi Grabner (Co-Host of PurePerformance) on what made them write a book on Platform Engineering and get some personal insights into what gets the authors excited about their respective topics. If you have a chance, meet Max, Hilliary, and Andi at KubeCon in London. They will present at Platform Engineering Day and do a book signing at KubeCrawl! Links we discussed: Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Platform-Engineering-Architects-Crafting-platforms-ebook/dp/B0DH5DJFTH Platform Engineering Day Session: https://colocatedeventseu2025.sched.com/event/1u5mX/platform-engineering-for-architects-crafting-platforms-as-a-product-max-korbacher-liquid-reply-hilliary-lipsig-red-hat Hilliary Lipsig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilliary-lipsig-a5935245/ Max Körbächer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkoerbaecher/ Andi Grabner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grabnerandi/

    59 min
  8. How CERN analyzed 1 PetaByte per second using K8s with Ricardo Rocha

    MAR 3

    How CERN analyzed 1 PetaByte per second using K8s with Ricardo Rocha

    One PetaByte is the equivalent of 11000 4k movies. And CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates this every single second. Only a fraction of this data (~1 GB/s) is stored and analyzed using a multicluster batch job dispatcher with Kueue running on Kubernetes.  In this episode we have Ricardo Rocha, Platform Engineering Lead at CERN and CNCF Advocate, explaining why after 20 years at CERN he is still excited about the work he and his colleagues at CERN are doing. To kick things off we learn about the impact that the CNCF has on the scientific community, how to best balance an implementation of that scale between "easy of use" vs "optimized for throughput". Tune in and learn about custom hardware being built 20 years ago and how the advent of the latest chip generation has impacted the evolution of data scientists around the globe Links we discussed Ricardo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-rocha-739aa718/ KubeCon SLC Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMmskWIlktA&list=PLj6h78yzYM2Pw4mRw4S-1p_xLARMqPkA7&index=5 Kueue CNCF Project: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/10/04/introducing-kueue/

    39 min
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The brutal truth about digital performance engineering and operations. Andreas (aka Andi) Grabner and Brian Wilson are veterans of the digital performance world. Combined they have seen too many applications not scaling and performing up to expectations. With more rapid deployment models made possible through continuous delivery and a mentality shift sparked by DevOps they feel it’s time to share their stories. In each episode, they and their guests discuss different topics concerning performance, ranging from common performance problems for specific technology platforms to best practices in development, testing, deploying and monitoring software performance and user experience. Be prepared to learn a lot about metrics. Andi & Brian both work at Dynatrace, where they get to witness more real world customer performance issues than they can TPS report at.

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  • Creator
    PurePerformance
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2025
  • Episodes
    313
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Dynatrace LLC
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