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10KMedia Podcast

10KMedia Podcast

By Adam LaGreca

Interviewing leaders in DevOps.
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Episode 26: Astasia Myers, Founding Partner at Quiet Capital

10KMedia PodcastAug 23, 2022

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Episode 45, Rory Blundell: CEO of Gravitee

Episode 45, Rory Blundell: CEO of Gravitee

Adam sits down with Rory to discuss modern API management, startup challenges, and balancing fast cash with long-term vision.

Mar 15, 202445:24
Episode 44: Austin Parker, Director of Open Source at Honeycomb

Episode 44: Austin Parker, Director of Open Source at Honeycomb

Adam sits down with Austin to discuss all things observability, the importance of OpenTelemetry, and the future of Honeycomb.

Mar 05, 202401:04:47
Episode 43: Kolton Andrus, CTO & Founder at Gremlin

Episode 43: Kolton Andrus, CTO & Founder at Gremlin

Adam sits down with Kolton to discuss the hype around Chaos Engineering, his time building resilient systems at companies like Amazon and Netflix, and ultimately why Chaos Engineering alone isn't enough to build reliable systems.

Feb 15, 202450:39
Episode 42: Peter Guagenti, President & CMO at Tabnine

Episode 42: Peter Guagenti, President & CMO at Tabnine

Adam sits down with Peter to discuss how coding assistants can democratize knowledge and boost productivity, the potential copyright concerns with Generative AI, and if ultimately humans have much to worry about with the rise of AI.

Feb 06, 202446:12
Episode 41: Peter Zawistowicz, Head of Marketing at StackBlitz

Episode 41: Peter Zawistowicz, Head of Marketing at StackBlitz

Adam sits down with Peter to discuss top down verse bottom-up sales motions, getting PLG off the ground, and some considerations when it comes to open source / freemium.

Jan 09, 202442:40
Episode 40: Avi Freedman, CEO & Co-Founder of Kentik

Episode 40: Avi Freedman, CEO & Co-Founder of Kentik

Adam sits down with Avi to discuss the importance of observability, the hype around eBPF, and the mistake many modern companies make by treating the network as a second-class citizen.

Sep 21, 202353:05
Episode 39: Jason Yee, Staff Advocate at Datadog

Episode 39: Jason Yee, Staff Advocate at Datadog

Adam sits down with Jason to discuss Datadog's meteoric rise, the recent fork of Terraform, and the value of Generative AI for Observability.

Sep 07, 202347:09
Episode 38: Elad Ben-Israel, CEO & Co-Founder of Wing Cloud

Episode 38: Elad Ben-Israel, CEO & Co-Founder of Wing Cloud

Adam sits down with Elad to discuss the ambition behind creating a new programming language, the importance of cloud portability, and the importance of open source.

Aug 29, 202351:15
Episode 37: Nimrod Kramer, CEO & Co-Founder of Daily.dev

Episode 37: Nimrod Kramer, CEO & Co-Founder of Daily.dev

Adam sits down with Nimrod to discuss the importance of community, keeping up with the pace of innovation, and how vendors should think about creating their own communities.

Aug 24, 202343:40
Episode 36: Danny Lev, Founder of Empire Now

Episode 36: Danny Lev, Founder of Empire Now

Adam sits down with Danny to discuss why companies need marketing from the first line of code, handling difficult conversations as a marketing consultant, and the challenges with attributing marketing spend to business revenue.

Jul 07, 202332:10
Episode 35: Payton O'Neal, Director of Marketing at Apiiro

Episode 35: Payton O'Neal, Director of Marketing at Apiiro

Adam sits down with Payton to discuss the blurring of infrastructure and application security, marketing strategies for startups versus enterprises, and the art of category creation.

Jun 16, 202345:58
Episode 34: Austin Gunter, Principal Consultant at Market / Model

Episode 34: Austin Gunter, Principal Consultant at Market / Model

Adam sits down with Austin to discuss his new G2M consulting agency, their joint time at Gremlin, and how to approach PLG vs Enterprise sales.

May 18, 202333:19
Episode 33: Glauber Costa, CEO & Founder of ChiselStrike (Turso)

Episode 33: Glauber Costa, CEO & Founder of ChiselStrike (Turso)

Adam sits down with Glauber to discuss data on the edge, the ideal use cases for edge computing, and the public beta release of Turso.

Apr 05, 202331:02
Episode 32: Scott Gerlach, CSO & Co-Founder of StackHawk

Episode 32: Scott Gerlach, CSO & Co-Founder of StackHawk

Adam sits down with Scott to discuss DevSecOps, navigating tool overload, and shifting left without undermining the authority of security teams.

Mar 13, 202332:20
Episode 31: Erez Voitiz, CTO & Co-Founder of Sprkl

Episode 31: Erez Voitiz, CTO & Co-Founder of Sprkl

Adam sits down with Erez to discuss personal observability, OpenTelemetry, and building tools that developers love.

Jan 05, 202330:57
Episode 30: Eden Full Goh, CEO & Founder of Mobot

Episode 30: Eden Full Goh, CEO & Founder of Mobot

Adam sits down with Eden to discuss why engineers should outsource QA, the role of robots for testing in the cloud, and if app stores like Apple & Android should become more standardized.

Nov 29, 202233:17
Episode 29: Rich Burroughs, Staff Developer Advocate at Loft Labs

Episode 29: Rich Burroughs, Staff Developer Advocate at Loft Labs

Adam sits down with Rich to discuss the upcoming KubeCon NA, the perpetual hype around Kubernetes, and why it can be tricky to measure the impact of DevRel.

Oct 11, 202248:34
Episode 28: Yuval Hazaz, CEO & Founder of Amplication

Episode 28: Yuval Hazaz, CEO & Founder of Amplication

Adam sits down with Yuval to discuss open source, backend automation, and developer productivity.

Sep 26, 202222:13
Episode 27: Roi Ravhon, CEO & Co-Founder of Finout

Episode 27: Roi Ravhon, CEO & Co-Founder of Finout

Adam sits down with Roi to discuss FinOps, tracking cloud costs, and translating technical costs to business value.

Sep 07, 202239:06
Episode 26: Astasia Myers, Founding Partner at Quiet Capital

Episode 26: Astasia Myers, Founding Partner at Quiet Capital

Adam sits down with Astasia to discuss the current funding climate, how she chooses companies to invest in, and trending topics in DevOps.

Aug 23, 202234:13
Episode 25: Rez Khan, CPO & Co-Founder of Pace

Episode 25: Rez Khan, CPO & Co-Founder of Pace

Adam sits down with Rez to talk about the rise of product-led growth, its role in enterprise sales, and how his new startup Pace is helping bridge the gaps with data on demand without requests from engineering.

Jul 21, 202239:29
Episode 24: Aaron Woods, Senior Manager of Customer Success at LaunchDarkly (with special guest John Egan)

Episode 24: Aaron Woods, Senior Manager of Customer Success at LaunchDarkly (with special guest John Egan)

Adam sits down with Aaron to discuss customer support vs. customer success, the importance of being proactive to reduce churn, and ultimately why every modern organization needs a strong customer-centric culture. John Egan joins the conversation to talk about the importance of customer signals when it comes to incident response.

Jun 21, 202236:57
Episode 23: Puneet Gupta, CEO & Co-Founder of Amberflo.io

Episode 23: Puneet Gupta, CEO & Co-Founder of Amberflo.io

Adam sits down with Puneet to discuss product-led growth, usage-based pricing, and how all modern orgs can adopt a business model similar to AWS.

Jun 13, 202248:44
Episode 22: Daniel Bryant, Head of Developer Relations at Ambassador Labs

Episode 22: Daniel Bryant, Head of Developer Relations at Ambassador Labs

Adam sits down with Daniel to discuss the upcoming KubeCon EU and the rise of Kubernetes, how to hire for DevRel (and how to get into it), and the importance of giving developers abstractions and control planes.

May 09, 202247:22
Episode 21: Guy Eisenkot, Senior Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks

Episode 21: Guy Eisenkot, Senior Director of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks

Adam sits down with Guy to talk about supply chain security, the rising importance of DevSec, and creating immersive developer experiences.

May 02, 202233:25
Episode 20: Elias Groll, CEO of Codesphere

Episode 20: Elias Groll, CEO of Codesphere

Adam sits down with Elias to discuss why pushing code to production should be much easier, the benefits of web-based IDEs, and why you maybe don't need DevOps engineers to deploy software.

Apr 18, 202237:28
Episode 19: Mies, Founder of Fiberplane

Episode 19: Mies, Founder of Fiberplane

Adam sits down with Fiberplane to talk about collaborative software, incident response, and why notebooks should be at the core of an SRE workflow.

Apr 15, 202224:02
Episode 18: Shimon Tolts, CEO & Co-Founder of Datree.io

Episode 18: Shimon Tolts, CEO & Co-Founder of Datree.io

Adam sits down with Shimon to discuss the complexity of Kubernetes, the importance of open source, and how the front page of Hacker News helped give his company a boost.

Apr 04, 202239:16
Episode 17: Or Weis, CEO & Co-Founder of Permit.io

Episode 17: Or Weis, CEO & Co-Founder of Permit.io

Adam sits down with Or to discuss the difficulty of building permissions from scratch, the importance of open source to build a community, and the future of product-led growth.

Mar 29, 202201:07:24
Episode 16: Nora Jones, CEO & Founder of Jeli

Episode 16: Nora Jones, CEO & Founder of Jeli

Adam sits down with Nora to discuss the importance of cross-team incident analysis, the role of chaos engineering, and her time working on resilience at Netflix & Slack.

Mar 22, 202236:24
Episode 15: Liran Hason, CEO & Co-Founder of Aporia

Episode 15: Liran Hason, CEO & Co-Founder of Aporia

Adam sits down with Liran to discuss the differences between machine learning and artificial intelligence, building more reliable and predictable data models, and the ethics of AI in general.

Feb 23, 202238:12
Episode 14: Dotan Horovits, Principal Developer Advocate at Logz.io

Episode 14: Dotan Horovits, Principal Developer Advocate at Logz.io

Adam sits down with Dotan to talk about the evolution of observability and its recent broadening to include security, the importance of open source, and the beauty of the OpenTelemetry project.

Jan 25, 202227:56
Episode 13: Tyson Kunovsky, CEO & Co-Founder of AutoCloud

Episode 13: Tyson Kunovsky, CEO & Co-Founder of AutoCloud

Adam sits down with Tyson to talk about creating a central place for aggregating and visualizing cloud data, optimizing the cost and performance of major cloud providers, and how useful open source projects can be a great funnel for product led growth.

Dec 15, 202135:34
Episode 12: Jessica Cregg, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly

Episode 12: Jessica Cregg, Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly

Adam sits down with Jessica to talk about the future of events, psychological safety in the workplace, and perverse incentives within technology.

Oct 28, 202124:27
Episode 11: Anurag Gupta, CEO and Founder of Shoreline

Episode 11: Anurag Gupta, CEO and Founder of Shoreline

Adam sits down with Anurag to discuss incident response, AIOps, and why machines should be handling the mundane work of operations.

Jul 11, 202137:46
Episode 10: Brooke McKim, CTO & Co-Founder of Vantage

Episode 10: Brooke McKim, CTO & Co-Founder of Vantage

Adam sits down with Brooke to talk about bringing transparency to cloud costs, the importance of design / UX, and where Vantage is headed next.

Jun 29, 202129:35
Episode 9: Matthew Helmke, Senior Technical Content Developer at Grafana Labs

Episode 9: Matthew Helmke, Senior Technical Content Developer at Grafana Labs

Adam sits down with Matthew to discuss why it's difficult to hire technical writers, the importance of open source / bottoms-up, and why an open culture wins in the end.

Jun 15, 202151:22
Episode 8: Itiel Shwartz, CTO & Co-Founder of Komodor

Episode 8: Itiel Shwartz, CTO & Co-Founder of Komodor

Adam sits down with Itiel to discuss the launch of Komodor, the hype around Kubernetes, and the pillars of troubleshooting modern applications.

Jun 10, 202131:15
Episode 7: Jason English, Principal Analyst and CMO at Intellyx

Episode 7: Jason English, Principal Analyst and CMO at Intellyx

Adam sits down with Jason to discuss magic quadrants, cool vendors, and relationship building within the analyst community.

May 17, 202132:41
Episode 6: John Egan, CEO and Co-Founder of Kintaba

Episode 6: John Egan, CEO and Co-Founder of Kintaba

Adam sits down with John to discuss AIOps, blameless postmortems, and why modern incident management involves the entire organization.

Apr 26, 202101:07:40
Episode 5: Charity Majors, CTO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb

Episode 5: Charity Majors, CTO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb

Adam sits down with Charity to discuss the power of storytelling, engaging with competitors, and the hype around Observability.

Apr 14, 202134:33
Episode 4: Barak Schoster, CTO and Co-Founder of Bridgecrew

Episode 4: Barak Schoster, CTO and Co-Founder of Bridgecrew

Adam sits down with Barak to discuss the rise of DevSecOps, the recent acquisition of Bridgecrew by Palo Alto Networks, and the popularity of the open source project Checkov.

Apr 08, 202136:45
Episode 3: Shahar Fogel, CEO of Rookout

Episode 3: Shahar Fogel, CEO of Rookout

Adam sits down with Shahar to discuss bottom-up vs top-down sales, building a company focused on cloud vs on-prem, and the rise of Understandability within DevOps.

Mar 23, 202139:02
Episode 2: Tammy Bryant, Principal SRE at Gremlin

Episode 2: Tammy Bryant, Principal SRE at Gremlin

Adam sits down with Tammy to discuss the meteoric rise of DigitalOcean back around 2014, how to effectively manage teams during the pandemic, how Dropbox incentivized a culture of resilience, and evangelizing the still-relatively-underground practice of Chaos Engineering.

Feb 17, 202129:52
Episode 1: Daniel 'Spoons' Spoonhower, Chief Architect and Co-Founder of Lightstep

Episode 1: Daniel 'Spoons' Spoonhower, Chief Architect and Co-Founder of Lightstep

Adam sits down with Spoons to chat about AI's role in operations, the differences between monitoring and observability, and the announcement of Change Intelligence.

Feb 04, 202146:19