Karthik Rau, VP of Observability at Splunk, on Scaling SignalFx and Getting Acquired

Update: 2020-11-19

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Karthik Rau co-founded and served as CEO of SignalFX from inception in 2013 all the way through the company’s $1.05 billion acquisition by Splunk in 2019. Karthik is presently Vice President of Observability at Splunk and oversees the cross-functional strategy and execution of Splunk's application management, monitoring and observability efforts. SignalFx was founded to help operators of modern distributed applications perform real-time cloud monitoring and observability. Given Karthik’s position at SignalFX and now Splunk, this episode covers the transition to cloud, devops, modern application development and more.

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Karthik Rau, VP of Observability at Splunk, on Scaling SignalFx and Getting Acquired

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Karthik Rau, VP of Observability at Splunk, on Scaling SignalFx and Getting Acquired

Karthik Rau, VP of Observability at Splunk, on Scaling SignalFx and Getting Acquired