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Jonan Scheffler talks to Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, Yoshi Yamaguchi, about the way OpenTelemetry has brought together metrics and traces, profiling data, logging, and the importance of always enjoying the technology that you work on.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler talks to Founder and CEO of Krunch Data, Jordan Chung, about Krunch being a tool for content creators to understand what their audiences are finding engaging. They discuss regional salaries and the belief in paying people for the work they perform, not paying them based on where they live, how there are more opportunities to work in Developer Relations now more than ever, that half of working in DevRel is convincing people that DevRel should even exist, and soon every company will soon *need* a Chief Developer Relations Officer (CDRO)! Jordan also gives solid advice for newbies in the field: follow your curiosity and be open-minded.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler talks to new friend Brittany Woods about how shifting workloads to the cloud is the new cool thing, work-life balance, and the possibility and potentiality of terrifying robots.Also? Don't be afraid to have opinions.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Founding Engineer at Traceable.ai, Jayesh Ahire, about what experience we should give to developers by reducing cognitive load, how alerting is a very important component when it comes to monitoring observability, and gives the most wonderful and actionable advice to new developers: READ. Read as much as you can, focus on first principles, and your career will grow and thrive.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Developer Advocate at Observable, Anjana Vakil, about the rise of data visualization, Computational Linguistics, and the importance of finding an incredible community to guide you through your learning journey.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews DevOps Engineer, Arshad Zackeriya about how FinOps is involved with observability and how observability can help FinOps.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Joe Nuspl about how there are multiple ways to do things in software, his prediction that we, as a society, are going to continue feeling the effects of the pandemic in our supply chains for some time, and that feeling that everybody should have a thing that they tinker with that brings them joy.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews New Relic's own Buddy Brewer about the importance of monitoring and performance and how it's an opportunity to take a wide lens to look at all of the different ways that software gets used by people every day.Jonan and Buddy also talk about how if we really want to make great software, we really need to focus on end-user experience, and that one of the things that is incredibly important today that we weren't focusing on ten years ago, is the importance of interoperability between tools as toolmakers, community project managers, and open-source project maintainers. We should be oriented around how we help the people who are actually creating experiences compose tools together in ways that help people get their jobs done better.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty, Mandi Walls, about Sysadmin vs DevOps, how people are the heart of DevOps, PagerDuty tooling processes, and how Mandi wishes she'd taken more time to learn more Python in the beginning of her career because it's everywhere!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Co-Founder and CTO of Honeycomb, Charity Majors, about successfully shipping code, Chaos Engineering, and why it's important to embrace feature flags.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Milecia McGregor, a Developer Advocate at Iterative, about her background in mechanical and aerospace engineering, fiddling with neurotechnology, and shares some of the awesome projects she is working on or has worked on such as an air guitar app, and an IoT dog locator.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Michael Hausenblas who is a Solution Engineering Lead in the AWS open source observability service team. He also serves as a Cloud Native Ambassador at the CNCF. Together, they chat about open source observability including but not limited to Prometheus/OpenMetrics, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Senior Developer Advocate at Loft Labs and creator and host of the Kube Cuddle podcast, Rich Burroughs about being someone in tech who struggles with ADHD and how he is coping and getting help with that, doing Developer Relations in the DevOps space: DevDevOps, perhaps? And, how he thinks Kubernetes is a good choice if you're just starting out in tech. Because as it turns out, it appears that this Kubernetes thing is not slowing down anytime soon!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Splunk Developer Advocate, Chris Riley about DevRel Advocacy, aiming more for HugOps for others when things inevitably go wrong, and bringing security practices earlier in the software delivery chain.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Lauren Langdell, Founder of Women in DevOps: a platform that advocates for not just women's voices but also the LGBTQ+ community, people of different ethnicities, races, and religions, and neurodiverse people within software engineering and DevOps, about being a recruiter who helps underrepresented populations get into tech and thrive across many facets of humanity.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Microsoft MVP Steve Buchanan about Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), how Microsoft's been successful at working in enterprise and open source, where he believes GitOps is eventually going to go, and his excitement in regards to AI and blockchain and how they're going to impact the world.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Grafana Senior Cloud Integrations Engineer Jacob Plicque about cofounding The Empatheatre: a Twitch stream for live tabletop RPG playing that incorporates a variety of safety tools to keep players psychologically safe and comfortable, why failure isn’t just okay; it’s actually awesome, comfortable disagreement, and the recent explosion in the popularity of developer relations.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Observability Economist, SLOgician, and Zendesk Site Reliability Engineer  Fred Moyer about being a “SLOgician,” which he explains is someone who works on SLOs from a statistics perspective. Additionally, a lot of his work is being what he describes as an “observability economist.” Fred works a lot with Zendesk’s observability systems. And because they’ve been growing so rapidly as a company, they've been scaling rapidly as well. Therefore, he works to ensure that they’re using their observability economically.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Google Developer Advocate Amanda Lewis about DevOps Research, and Assessment (DORA), being hospitable to customers and finding creative ways to solve people's problems, and what exactly “a DevRel team does.” Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Shelby Spees, Developer Advocate at Honeycomb.io about her background in teaching and speaking foreign languages, and the overlap between linguistics and software, because in large part, linguistics is about conveying information efficiently with different systems. Similarly, in software, we're always conveying information to machines and/or to each other, (and hopefully, more to each other than to the machines!)Shelby also talks about her work helping contribute to the CNCF white paper on observability, which is collectively working towards a goal for the betterment of ourselves and our peers.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Senior Architect at Slalom Build, Renata Rocha about coaching customers as to why a certain technology such as Kubernetes may or may not be the best choice for what they're trying to achieve, being in the practice of educating yourself constantly, and how it’s easier to understand how to solve problems when you have the tools in your hands.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jonan Scheffler interviews Manager of Community Relations at Storj, Jocelyn Matthews, about camaraderie, community building, and the concept that in a sense, all communities are virtual, whether you're physically going somewhere or not, because the concept of community – the meaning of community –  really exists in your head ::mind blown::

Jonan Scheffler interviews Microsoft Cloud Advocate Jay Gordon about how important it is to maintain your reputation as a business, that monitoring and observability are both integral parts of how we keep things online and running nowadays, and how serverless is the future and how it’s going to eventually make problems like hosting easier for devs.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Jeff Smith and Jonan Scheffler hang out and talk about complex issues, pragmatism, and being happy in the Ops.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Marko Anastasov, Co-Founder at Semaphore, talks to Jonan Scheffler about how Semaphore optimizes a happy path for developers in the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) space, having much love for Ruby on Rails, its community members, and its impact on software development, and if he could go back in time to give young Marko advice, it would be that if you're in the position that you want to build some kind of a product that you want other people to use and benefit from, just do it! Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: [@ObservyMcObserv](https://twitter.com/ObservyMcObserv).

Senior Developer Relations Program Manager at New Relic, Mia Moore talks to Jonan about how it’s healthy and cool to be friends with your boss, bringing their vision of the perfect DevRel job to fruition, and Furby hacking for fun! Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Principle SRE at Equinix, Amy Tobey talks to Jonan about leadership anxiety and managing that, using SLOs as durable processes in our businesses that drag our focus back to customers on a regular basis, and the fact that as software developers, we can't learn it all because it's impossible. Instead, Amy says that in order to succeed in the field, we’ve got to pick something that we can dig into and get good at some small corner of it. Then! We need to find ourselves a little, secure space and work outwards from there.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Austin Schaefer, Jerel Miller, John Vajda of New Relic talk about the company’s decision to open source their docs, how they did it, and some of the interesting technical challenges they faced while doing so.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Aaron Aldrich talks about applying the Red Hat treatment to Kubernetes, working as a Managed OpenShift Black Belt, resilience engineering, and running Tabletop DevOps.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Principal Developer Advocate for SRE & Observability at Honeycomb, Liz Fong-Jones, talks about common questions she regularly gets from companies and clients looking to implement observability into their workflow and defines observability as a mechanism in order to improve the operability of systems. Liz says we shouldn’t talk about observability in a vacuum and that instead, it's a technique for analyzing production data that goes hand in hand with other production techniques, team philosophies, and development methodologies. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Our first repeat guest ever, Austin Parker, Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep, talks about OpenTelemetry: an observability framework for cloud-native software that is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. You use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis to understand your software's performance and behavior.The OpenTelemetry specification is now in 1.0! What does this mean?It means we've achieved a major milestone in defining the observability framework for cloud-native applications, and that production-ready 1.0 releases of OpenTelemetry libraries will start being released over the next weeks and months!

In this episode, Jason Yee, Director of Advocacy at Gremlin, talks about community: growth, monetization, and sustainment, as well as creating a sense of belonging amidst living life during a pandemic by attending virtual events and participating in the new wave of online streaming.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Wesley Faulkner, Developer Relations at Daily, talks about ethical networking by sharing your whole self and going beyond transactional relationships, i.e. what your job is, what your role is, and how those relate to each other. Wesley also says that the people who are extremely good at what they do aren't as good as what you may perceive and that when you're getting started in programming, you're not as bad as you think. Don't be too rough on yourself and don't think that people are perfect. Mistakes are what make us. Keep trying. Keep moving. No matter where you go, you're going to end up where you need to be.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee of Pixie Labs talk about joining forces with New Relic to accelerate the Pixie Community. The goal at Pixie has been to try to provide a unified experience between what you see on the command-line and what you see on a web UI or mobile phone, instantly troubleshoot applications on Kubernetes – no instrumentation needed, and to run community, team, or custom scripts to debug as code: publish and share sessions as code with a team and/or community members.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Katy Farmer, Technical Community Manager at CircleCI, talks about creating welcoming and friendly spaces, but that you had better follow her code of conduct! Katy is not here for people being rude. She protects her angels within her community. Katy is also all about treating DevRel booth people equally. Everyone is qualified to be there. Don’t ask to speak to a “technical” person, if and when in-person conferences ever resume.Finally, Katy reminisces about working in customer service. Was it terrible? Yes, but she is very grateful that she did because it gave her the skills to help people ask questions and backtrack through problems. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Quintessence Anx, Developer Advocate at PagerDuty where she helps to train people on patterns for notifications, alerts, stopping alerts, and stuff so you don't get woken up unless you absolutely really should be woken up, talks about battling alert fatigue, mean time to recovery and post-mortems as being not the way to measure things, the evolution of ChatOps, and why it’s important as a mentor to introduce newbies to your professional network.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, talks about fun corporate law-y things like open-source licenses, trademarks, and patents, diving head-first into the Rust language, and the importance of being kind. Don't do tech alone! Communities are fun. Community is important.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Kat Cosgrove, developer advocate at JFrog, talks about working on firmware updates for self-driving cars called Donkey Cars, the importance of on-point documentation, and getting the community, especially newbies, involved in open-source projects, programming, and speaking. There are no stupid questions, and stop calling your things “easy”!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Tim Banks, Principal Solutions Architect at Packet, an Equinix Company, talks about prioritizing a customer-first mentality, how observability = insight, and the real cost of developer burnout, and why companies should be more proficient in helping to prevent it.As far as observability goes, Tim wants to know what's going on inside something be it a container, a process, or a stack – and he wants to know what's going on before something breaks. Monitoring and alerting typically happen when things are going south and then you do something about it. Unfortunately, this tends to happen in person-to-person communication as well. We are as much building systems of humans around the technical systems that we are developing. Investing in people and their mental health is essential. Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Anne Dalton, Transformation Specialist at Red Hat’s NAPS Division, talks about parallels that can be drawn between neuroscience and software, teaching government agencies and other clients “The Cloud” and helping them to navigate how to go about implementing it successfully by using S.M.A.R.T. goals, all while relaying why observability and transparency are crucial.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Tammy Bryant, Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Gremlin, talks about specializing in chaos engineering and incident management. Connect with her further on her website, tammybutow.com.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Austin Parker, Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep, talks about OpenTelemetry, an observability framework for cloud-native software that is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. You use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to understand your software's performance and behavior.He also tells Jonan how he started/threw together Deserted Island DevOps during the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how overwhelmingly successful and loved it was. DIDevOps was a single-day virtual event that was livestreamed on Twitch this past April. All presentations took place in the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and the event pulled ~15,000 unique viewers on the day of the conference alone!Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Mando Escamilla talks about his transition from a DevOps individual contributor to becoming a manager, the relationship between engineering and Ops, striving to be on the same page as a team, and attempting to do best work while wanting do what's best for the company as a whole and the customers they serve. It’s all about coming together, growing together, and having empathy.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Matt Stratton, Transformation Specialist at Red Hat’s NAPS Transformation Office, talks about his career in DevOps, developer advocacy and relations, why monitoring matters, discoverability, resilience engineering, and systems thinking.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Kelsey Hightower talks about the new mesh revolution in Kubernetes while teasing his upcoming book: Mesh The Hard Way. The idea is that we can write applications that talk to other applications and that there's a lot of stuff that happens in the middle of those two things. Kelsey talks about what observability means, and that as it stands, developers have a tendency to collect metrics, but most of the time, they’re not really sure why they’re collecting them. He says that there is a balance between collecting data and being able to create something actionable and that it's what you do with data is where power comes from. Challenges come and go, and you can get depressed about them and complain about them, or you can look at challenges as an opportunity to overcome things. You may ask yourself how you can keep up with all of the observability tools out there, but most of the tools we see today are no different than most of the tools that existed ten or fifteen years ago. They may have better UIs and workflows, but fundamentally they are all roughly the same. Kelsey urges developers to take comfort in that, be patient, learn what you can, and go as deep as you can. More than likely what you're learning now will be applicable in the future. Understand that you have control over the pace of information you let in, and the pace of things you choose to adopt, and you can also take a break and it will all be okay.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

We are joined today by Ben Curtis, from Honeybadger. Ben is a web developer and entrepreneur for the past 20 years. He enjoys working on the web, building products, and seeing people get to use those products.Ben talks about the why and the how of building Honeybadger (currently just a five-person team!), the beauty of a good developer blog such as their own, replacing conference engagement digitally now that people aren't conferencing right now, engaging with users via newsletters, and how they use technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Fargate and Amazon AWS in production.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

We are joined today by Sally Lehman. Sally has spent the past eleven years as a Site Reliability Engineer. She joined Oracle as a part of the Add This team and managed an upwards of over 10,000 nodes at the same time.Sally talks about what she likes about using Kubernetes as opposed to YAML and Salt, where she thinks Kubernetes is currently, and where she sees it going in the future, Prometheus, an open-source monitoring solution, and Thanos, a CNCF incubating project.Additionally, Sally, who now works in primarily Python, compares this community with other programming language communities around the Web such as Ruby and Go.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

This week we were joined by Bobby Tables of Firehydrant.io, world-renowned purveyor of artisanal handcrafted incident response services that are in fact the opposite of that; perfectly replicable and entirely automated.Bobby talks us through some of the motivation behind the path he and his co-founders walked (sprinted?) when starting their company and the market circumstances that have created a demand for automated incident response.We also touch on the distinction between DevOps and SRE, the pros and cons of microservices, and one particularly memorable incident involving a platypus and a fire hydrant.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease.

Alex Ellis takes us on a tour of modern cloud ecosystems and tells us how organizations like the CNCF are making decisions that will shape our collective future. He also shares some thoughts on open-core licensing and other strategies that open source maintainers can use to ensure their work is sustainable.As always we'd love to hear your feedback on the show. Send us an email at devrel@newrelic.com to let us know where you'd like us to take future episodes or suggest potential guests. If you have ideas about the name of the podcast or potential alternatives please send them to definitelynotafakeaddress@newrelic.com so we can be sure to give them the attention they deserve.For more podcasts and other life-changing revolutionary content from the developers of New Relic visit developer.newrelic.com.

We're joined by Bill Staples (CPO of New Relic) to discuss tape drives, commercial open source and Steve Ballmer yelling at developers.You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll really wish we'd named this podcast something else. The internet spoke and we listened; we're here to give the people what they want.For more podcasts and other life-changing revolutionary content from the developers of New Relic visit developer.newrelic.com.