Observy McObservface
Observy McObservface
New Relic Developer Relations
The observability podcast that we let the internet name, and got exactly what we deserved. We're here to discuss trends and forecasts in all things observability, specifically the changing landscape as containerization and open source shake up the tech world.
Cats and Clouds – There Are No Pillars in Observability with Yoshi Yamaguchi
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 [email protected]. 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.
Nov 3, 2021
33 min
Meta-Observability – Observing the Observers with Jordan Chung
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 [email protected]. 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.
Oct 6, 2021
31 min
Skycraft – Building Clouds and Wrangling Robots with Brittany Woods
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 [email protected]. 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.
Sep 22, 2021
31 min
Collective Collection – Shifting Cognitive Load with Jayesh Ahire
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 [email protected]. 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.
Sep 15, 2021
32 min
Notebooks & Visualizations – Welcome to The Observaguild with Anjana Vakil
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 [email protected]. 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.
Sep 8, 2021
28 min
Wordpress on Kubernetes – Making Friends with FinOps
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 [email protected]. 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.
Sep 1, 2021
33 min
Blame & Complexity – Prioritizing Impact with Joe Nuspl
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 [email protected]. 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.
Aug 24, 2021
22 min
The Future is Bright – Open Source, OpenTelemetry and Observability with Buddy Brewer
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 [email protected]. 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.
Aug 10, 2021
30 min
Pages & Practitioners – Pinging The People with Mandi Walls
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 [email protected]. 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.
Aug 3, 2021
26 min
Kibbles & Bytes – Taming Production with Charity Majors
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 [email protected]. 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.
Jul 27, 2021
21 min
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