The Production-First Mindset

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

Sun, 12 Jun 2022 23:00:00 -0700

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.

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Transmit Security's Orit Yaron - Making New Mistakes

Sun, 15 May 2022 22:00:00 -0700

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.

Cherre's Stefan Thorpe - Heading Straight For The Cloud

Sun, 08 May 2022 23:00:00 -0700

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.

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

Sun, 01 May 2022 23:00:00 -0700

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.

Sentra's Ron Reiter - The Importance of Usefulness

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 23:00:00 -0700

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.

Lawgeex's Julia Shub - The Importance of Processes

Sun, 17 Apr 2022 21:00:00 -0700

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.

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

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:00:00 -0700

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.

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

Sun, 03 Apr 2022 23:00:00 -0700

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.

Netsertive's Herb Brittner - Going Beyond The Cookie Cutter

Sun, 27 Mar 2022 23:00:00 -0700

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.

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

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 23:00:00 -0700

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.

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

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0700

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!

Riskified's Boris Cherkasky - Getting Comfortable In Production

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 23:00:00 -0800

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.

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

Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:00:00 -0800

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.

Munch CTO, Peter Naftaliev - Interacting With A System

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 23:00:00 -0800

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.

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

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:00:00 -0800

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.

Vonage's Amitha Pulijala - Anticipating The Unanticipated

Sun, 06 Feb 2022 23:00:00 -0800

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.

Aspectiva's Victoriya Kalmanovich - Operating NLP At Scale

Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:00:00 -0800

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.

Anton Drukh - The Definition of Done

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 23:00:00 -0800

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.

Jeff Davis - Automation Will Set Our Minds Free

Sun, 16 Jan 2022 23:00:00 -0800

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.

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

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 23:00:00 -0800

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 podcast
Open Source for Better Observability talk, Open Source Summit 2021
OpenTelemetry guide
State of OpenTelemetry talk at DevOpsDays TLV
Logz.io observability platform
OpenSearch: The Open Source Successor of Elasticsearch
OpenSearch Is Now Generally Available

DraftKings's Idan Fridman - Survival Instinct In Startups

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 23:00:00 -0800

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Idan Fridman, Director of Engineering at DraftKings. They discuss his experience having his company be acquired, working with product stakeholders and finding common ground, building the culture at Blue Ribbon vs at DraftKings, and building the first satellite team.

Or Hiltch, JLL Technologies - Looking Beyond The Bottom Line

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:00:00 -0800

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Or Hiltch, VP of Engineering at JLL Technologies. They discuss how dentistry shaped his love of tech, working with - and processing - large amounts of data, why Serverless should always win, and the tradeoff between ease of delivery and friction.

Indeni's Alon Ashkenazi - The Next-Gen of Infrastructure As Code

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:00:00 -0800

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Alon Ashkenazi, VP of Engineering at Indeni. They discuss the next-gen of infrastructure as code security, complicated cloud architectures and how to control the different aspects of them, and helping your team manage the combination of new and old.

JP Beaudry, CTO of 2U - Facing The Daily Crisis

Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:00:00 -0800

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with JP Beaudry, CTO of 2U. They discuss how you redefine open-source within your company, what to do to make the open-source community feel more involved, and balancing market demands with internal technical hygiene.

Barak Yoresh, Lightricks - How To Have Pager Duty And Never Get Paged

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:00:00 -0800

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Barak Yoresh, Head of iOS Platform at Lightricks. They discuss how things are different for mobile offerings than SaaS, how working with Apple feels like, how to go about monitoring your apps deployed on millions of devices, and what happens when you break the funnel.

Appsflyer's Nir Rubinstein - Databases, Databases Everywhere

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 23:00:00 -0800

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Nir Rubenstein, Chief Architect at Appsflyer. They discuss why they prioritized using functional code, scaling from 3 engineers to 300, how the main difficulties of working at Appsflyer revolve around the sheer scale of data they work with, and formulating a game plan for migrating databases.

Jobvite's Ron Teeter - Own Your Code With Fullstack Observability

Sun, 21 Nov 2021 23:00:00 -0800

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Ron Teeter, Vice President Of Engineering at Jobvite. They discuss how valuable diversity is in tech, where the trigger point is on new technology, tech debt: how much can you afford to borrow vs what you need to pay off, why your devs need full stack observability...and how to get it, and how Rookout has helped their team to cut down hours of waiting time.

Michael Gillett - Shifting Dev Mindsets

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 21:00:00 -0800

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Michael Gillett, Author and Head of Development at Win Technologies and proud member of the Betway Group. They discuss the modern software development cycle, Michael’s new book on feature management (which we highly recommend taking a look at for yourself!), the mindset shift from focusing on code to focusing on production, and their unique approach to maintaining site reliability.

Slack's Suman Karumuri - The Journey To Being A Founder Of Modern Tracing

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:00:00 -0800

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Suman Karumuri, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Slack. They discuss the tools and techniques that make up modern observability, living through a major incident at Slack...and what was done to nurse Slack back to health, Suman’s personal impact on the realm of Observability, and following the questions to get answers, fast.

Anais Urlichs - Is It Worth Going The Extra Mile?

Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Anais Urlichs, an SRE at Civo. They discuss her journey into the world of cloud-native, being a part of the Kubernetes-focused generation, if you really need to implement it to your production environment...and if it's worth going that extra mile, and how to properly use Kubernetes without exposing yourself to any risks.

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Parametrix Insurance's Co-Founder & CTO, Neta Rozy - Keep Your Chill During Downtimes

Sun, 24 Oct 2021 20:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Neta Rozy, Parametrix Insurance's Co-Founder and CTO. They discuss why redundancy is key to everything they do, how to stay calm and collected during downtime, and evaluating products for their availability (and the tradeoffs you have to make).

Datorama’s Ilai Gilenberg - We'll Figure It Out Next Sprint

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Ilai Gilenberg, Datorama's Director of R&D. They discuss how to make sure that the code meets their standards, if we should focus on product or engineering excellence, the mentality of figuring it out in the next sprint, and the paradigm of striving for tech excellence but seeing it as an enabler.

Gitlab’s Wayne Haber- The Dilemmas of Dual Nature

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 22:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Wayne Haber, Gitlab’s Director of Engineering. They discuss how Wayne goes about differently operating his own SaaS version versus how he goes about releasing stuff for his customers, the dilemmas of the dual nature of the product and how they design features accordingly, deploying over 100x a day, and what growth engineering means for him.

Bridgecrew's Barak Schoster Goihman- Turning Coffee Into Code

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 03:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Barak Schoster Goihman, CTO & Co-founder of Bridgecrew. They discuss modern cloud architectures and challenges, why decision-making with the top-down approach doesn’t work for developer tool adoption, how they went about making the open-source platform into one that’s fun to use, and the focus on the developer experience...and why it’s necessary.

Dell Technologies Capital’s Tyler Jewell- The Dev Landscape And Paradigm Shifts

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 23:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, Tyler Jewell. They discuss his 2021 report of the developer-led landscape, including: the developer landscape’s new and exciting trends, the fundamental shift in the flow of money from paper transactions to API transactions, and how developer empowerment drives business growth.

Akita Software’s CEO, Jean Yang - Empowering The Everyday Developer

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 23:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Founder and CEO of Akita Software, Jean Yang. They discuss taking back the understanding of your system, a different approach to deploying observability, the DevOps revolution, and what it looks like to be the python of observability.

Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Infracost CEO - To Cloud Or Not To Cloud

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 23:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with CEO and Co-Founder of Infracost, Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini. They discuss the steep learning curve of growing open-source projects, the complexity of cloud pricing, what adopting open-source really means, and why it's essential to focus on the end customer and delivering real value.

Ido Shamun, Daily.Dev- 100k Users And An Engineer

Sun, 05 Sep 2021 22:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with CTO and Co-Founder of daily.dev, Ido Shamun. They discuss bringing order to the chaos that is developer news, having over 100k users as a single engineer, and what it’s like operating an open-source SaaS platform.

John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly CTO- The Nirvana Of Deploying 100x A Day

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 23:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with John Kodumal, CTO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly. They discuss maintaining quality and consistency in the product as your organization scales, getting to the nirvana of deploying a hundred times a day (and how to achieve that), and the tradeoffs to take when building your engineering org.

OwnBackup’s Roi Dover- Even Log Lines Need Code Reviews

Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Roi Dover, VP of Engineering at OwnBackup. They discuss how to serve customers better, the evolution from a single product to a multi-product company (and what that means for your R&D team), and how to ensure your R&D team has the proper metrics...and that they’re useable.

Monday.com's Shanee Radzewsky - Focus On The Customer, Not The Code

Sun, 15 Aug 2021 23:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Senior Full Stack Developer at Monday.com, Shanee Radzewsky. They discuss customer-focused engineering, the infamous Big Brain, and seeing the company grow from a small team to an IPO.

Demi Ben-Ari, CTO of Panorays - What’s Trust Got To Do With It?

Sun, 08 Aug 2021 04:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with CTO of Panorays, Demi Ben-Ari. They discuss visibility into production environments (and why it’s so crucial to your team), how shift left means ownership, and why bugs in production are the most costly of all.

JFrog's Stephen Chin: Refining the Craft of Coding

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 08:00:00 -0700

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with JFrog's VP of Developer Relations, Stephen Chin. They discuss how to refine the craft of coding, where the future of the Continuous Delivery Foundation is going, and how DevOps may end up looking a bit like The Terminator.