The Production-First Mindset

Learn how the top brands wow customers through production-first engineering. On this podcast you will find the tactics, methodologies, and metrics used to drive customer value by the engineering leaders actually doing it. Join Rookout CTO, Liran Haimovitch as he explores how customer-centric brands approach engineering to create a competitive advantage; with interviews covering topics such as automation, issue resolution, team structure, DevOps, and more.

XM Cyber's Tamar Stern - A Whole New World Of The SDLC

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Tamar Stern , BackEnd Group Leader at XM Cyber. They discuss how she got into the world of conference public speaking, how performance for Nodejs is different from other languages, how to go about understanding performance throughout the software development lifecycle, and why she doesn’t recommend profiling your production environment.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparallele...

06-13
26:32

Transmit Security's Orit Yaron - Making New Mistakes

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Orit Yaron , VP Cloud Platform at Transmit Security. They discuss technical vs. cultural priorities, how they handle on-call rotations and keep it from being a burden, human error and how it can be used to explain…everything. designing systems to cope with mistakes, and being proactive in learning.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This po...

05-16
22:08

Cherre's Stefan Thorpe - Heading Straight For The Cloud

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Stefan Thorpe , CEO at Cherre. They discuss how he knew that the cloud was where he was going to go, the whole point of DevOps, why they monitor everything, what they’re doing with Kubernetes and why they’re excited about it, and why they don’t use terraform.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make...

05-09
25:54

Deepchecks's Shir Chorev - Where The Machine Learning Part Comes In

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Shir Chorev, CTO at Deepchecks. They discuss what machine learning means to her, why we’re far away from aliens taking over the world, how machine learning is different from traditional engineering, and where automated tests shine in machine learning.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purch...

05-02
23:02

Sentra's Ron Reiter - The Importance of Usefulness

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Ron Reiter, Co-Founder & CTO at Sentra. They discuss his experience selling his previous company, why he tries to do as little DevOps as he can, what it was like running a production service within such a huge company, how to avoid growing pains at scale, what made him invest in Rookout, and the importance of usefulness.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to...

04-25
33:39

Lawgeex's Julia Shub - The Importance of Processes

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Julia Shub, DevOps Lead at Lawgeex. They discuss being the rising star of DevOps, her experience being a DevOps engineer and the switch over to it, the importance of processes surrounding the development lifecycle, the key benefits to keeping with Jenkins over a CI service, and how OpsSchool helps change lives within the tech industry.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled...

04-18
30:47

Doordash's Sudeeptha Jothiprakash - Where The Powerhouses Of Containers And Serverless Come In

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Sudeeptha Jothiprakash, Product Lead at Doordash. They discuss solving consumer issues, being able to find the needle in the haystack of containers, gaining a deep level of granularity without spiraling costs, the division of responsibility, and what the most important thing for DevOps engineers to be doing is.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDiscla...

04-11
24:30

Wix.com's Hila Fish - Doing Something With Your Data

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Hila Fish, Sr. DevOps Engineer at Wix.com. They discuss being a fan of open-source, dealing with the unexpected , understanding the nature of migrations, the challenges of deploying Gitlab on a GKE, and what it means to do data engineering.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may ...

04-04
23:58

Netsertive's Herb Brittner - Going Beyond The Cookie Cutter

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Herb Brittner, Sr. Director of Technology at Netsertive. They discuss running Java and PHP side by side in modern cloud environments, solving problems for customers, making sure everything isn’t cookie cutter all the time, the two sides to their data, aligning your product roadmap with your company’s goals, and the changes they’ve made over the past few years to make their PHP servers easier to maintain.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is ...

03-28
19:55

Box's Tamar Bercovici - The North Star Of Your System

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Tamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering at Box. They discuss what it was like growing from a senior engineer to VP of Engineering, her cloud journey of 20+ years, the process of migrating workflows to run majorly cloud, the key advantages to migrating to the cloud, and why making everything perfect is a bad way to build systems.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to ...

03-21
30:19

Rookout's Dudi Cohen - How To Live In The Debugging Moment

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Dudi Cohen, VP R&D at Rookout. They discuss the small nature of startups and its effects, why passion = potential when it comes to learning tech, developing for developers, why developers should stop working with sticks and stones, how to make sure your coding process isn’t only focused on thinking about the future, the experience of dogfooding their own code, and more!Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability...

03-14
26:18

Riskified's Boris Cherkasky - Getting Comfortable In Production

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Boris Cherkasky, Software Engineer and Production Advocate at Riskified. They discuss setting expectations for what the future looks like, his experience mentoring over the years, why he wants to stop hearing people say “it’s not my responsibility”, and how to get comfortable in production.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This post conta...

03-07
32:40

Oribi's Eynav Mass - Being Accountable From End to End

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Eynav Mass, VP R&D at Oribi. They discuss what Oribi is all about, adapting SDLC to the data that works in production, the culture required to move fast and take risks, and how they know what’s going on in production.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive...

02-28
22:11

Munch CTO, Peter Naftaliev - Interacting With A System

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Peter Naftaliev who is the CTO at Munch. They discuss his journey that brought him to Munch, what it means to build an automation platform for content creators, his experience launching an MVP (minimum viable product), and what he would’ve done differently if he could do it all again.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This post contains af...

02-21
20:02

Fidelity Investment's Jin Chun - Drinking The Scrum Kool Aid

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Jin Chun who is the Senior Vice President and Head of Cognitive Computing at Fidelity Investments. They discuss the role of tech within Fidelity, his experience of doing agile early on, how scrum looks in a financially related environment, and why company culture and your team are so important.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This ...

02-14
24:41

Vonage's Amitha Pulijala - Anticipating The Unanticipated

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Amitha Pulijala, Vice President of Product at Vonage. They discuss how APIs are the fuel of customer experiences, what it’s like running a business with developers as their core users, video services and the pandemic, and what differences they’re trying to encourage to promote innovation.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This post contain...

02-07
19:37

Aspectiva's Victoriya Kalmanovich - Operating NLP At Scale

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Victoriya Kalmanovich, Engineering Manager at Aspectiva. They discuss operating NLP at scale, her experience joining a company post-acquisition, how it is to collaborate with such a huge enterprise from so far away, and the key to good software architecture.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make ...

01-31
20:01

Anton Drukh - The Definition of Done

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Anton Drukh, Tech Executive Mentor. They discuss diving deep into helping other engineering leaders…and helping them skip the mistakes that he made, feeling more comfortable in the production environment you built, the secret sauce he gave his own team to increase their own impact, and how impactful small problems can be at a large scale.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalle...

01-24
23:15

Jeff Davis - Automation Will Set Our Minds Free

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Jeff Davis, Enterprise Agility Evangelist at Evernorth. They discuss what difference agile and shift-left made in coaching, why it’s okay to ruffle feathers, what to do about unplanned work in production, why saying yes means saying no, and being the quokka of the tech world.Developer-First ObservabilityRookout is a developer-first observability platform that provides an unparalleled ability to collectDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate l...

01-17
23:49

Logz.io's Dotan Horovits - Putting The Spotlight On Observability

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Dotan Horovits, Principal Advocate at Logz.io. They discuss his passion for open-source and communities…and how that led him to his current position, Open Observability Talks (his own podcast), his take on where OpenTelemetry stands now, and why users make the move from ElasticSearch to OpenSearch.To learn more about the topics discussed in this episode:OpenObservability Talks podcastOpen Source for Better Observability talk, Open Source Summi...

01-10
24:45

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