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As a leader that wants to optimize an organization you are bound to fail if you isolate social (culture and people) and technical (tools and process) changes. When we ask Lesley Cordero, Staff Engineer at The New York Times how to solve this dilemma she answers: "Platform Engineering, it can drive organizational sustainability by practicing sociotechnical principles that provide a community driven support system for application developers using our standardized shared platform architecture" Tune in to our latest episode and learn more about the importance of leadership to continuously keep up and balance the tension between "Developers" and "Operations", between "End User Experience" and "Developer Experience" and ultimately between "Culture and People and "Tools and Processes" Links we discussed Lesley's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleycordero/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleycordero/] GOTO Conference Talk => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-XrUONJ-o [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-XrUONJ-o]  QCon 2025 Talk Details: https://qconlondon.com/presentation/apr2025/platform-engineering-practice-sociotechnical-excellence [https://qconlondon.com/presentation/apr2025/platform-engineering-practice-sociotechnical-excellence]  DevOpsCon 2024 Talk Details: https://devopscon.io/business-company-culture/platform-engineering-devops/ [https://devopscon.io/business-company-culture/platform-engineering-devops/]

Do you plan for incidents? Do you have a time / cost budget for it in your sprint or quarterly planning? Do you have engineers that are "interruptible"? We discussed those and more questions with Lisa Karlin Curtis, Founding Engineer at incident.io who teaches us why we need to think differently about dealing with incidents! In our discussion we learn why modern incident management embraces more incidents that are publicly shared within an organization to foster learning. We learn about how to train more people to become incident responders, how to triage and categorize incidents, how to better plan for them and how to best report on them We also touch on AI - and how AI-generated code will eventually result in more Incidents which we should use as an opportunity to learn and improve our engineering process P.S: This was our 10th-anniversary podcast episode!! Here the links we discussed in the podcast: Lisa's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-karlin-curtis-a4563920/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-karlin-curtis-a4563920/] Her talk at ELC Prague: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18536WBHBcPEppEeXXP7o5UQOX2XfWoGmfds2CHegHq4/edit?slide=id.g3434e0cba65_0_0#slide=id.g3434e0cba65_0_0 [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18536WBHBcPEppEeXXP7o5UQOX2XfWoGmfds2CHegHq4/edit?slide=id.g3434e0cba65_0_0#slide=id.g3434e0cba65_0_0] Incident Playbook: https://incident.io/guide [https://incident.io/guide]

MCPs (Model Context Protocol) is an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to the the systems where data lives. But you probably already knew that if you have followed the recent hype around this topic after Anthropic made their announcement end of 2024. To learn more about that MCPs are not that magic, but enable "magic" new use cases to speed up efficiency of engineers we have invited Dana Harrison, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Telus. Dana goes into the use cases he and his team have been testing out over the past months to increase developer efficiency. In our conversation we also talk about the difference between local and remote MCPs, the importance of keeping resiliance in mind as MCPs are connecting to many different API backends and how we can and should observe the interactions with MCPs. Links we discussed Antrohopic Blog: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol [https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol] Dana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danaharrisonsre/overlay/about-this-profile/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/danaharrisonsre/overlay/about-this-profile/]

So you think Distributed Tracing is the new thing? Well - its not! But its never been as exciting as today! In this episode we combine 50 years of Distributed Tracing experience across our guests and hosts. We invited Christoph Neumueller and Thomas Rothschaedl who have seen the early days of agent-based instrumentation, how global standards like the W3C Trace Context allowed tracing to connect large enterprise systems and how OpenTelemetry is commoditizing data collection across all tech stacks. Tune in and learn about the difference between spans and traces, why collecting the data is only part of the story, how to combat the challenge when dealing with too much data and how traces relate and connect to logs, metrics and events. Links we discussed YouTube with Christoph: LINK WILL FOLLOW ONCE VIDEO IS POSTED Christoph's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophneumueller/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophneumueller/] Thomas's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rothschaedl/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rothschaedl/]

In the ever-changing IT world, creating content that stays relevant for long is hard. One of the objectives of "Platform Engineering for Architects: Crafting Modern Platforms as a Product" was to stay timeless by providing practical examples of use cases not necessarily tied to current technology trends. The book focuses on the importance of building a platform with a purpose, making the impact measurable, and ensuring the platform continuously evolves by continuously including the end users (the engineering teams) in the evolution of the platform. Tune in to this episode and hear from Max Körbächer (Founder of Liquid Reply), Hilliary Lipsig (Senior Principal SRE at RedHat), and Andi Grabner (Co-Host of PurePerformance) on what made them write a book on Platform Engineering and get some personal insights into what gets the authors excited about their respective topics. If you have a chance, meet Max, Hilliary, and Andi at KubeCon in London. They will present at Platform Engineering Day and do a book signing at KubeCrawl! Links we discussed: Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Platform-Engineering-Architects-Crafting-platforms-ebook/dp/B0DH5DJFTH [https://www.amazon.com/Platform-Engineering-Architects-Crafting-platforms-ebook/dp/B0DH5DJFTH] Platform Engineering Day Session: https://colocatedeventseu2025.sched.com/event/1u5mX/platform-engineering-for-architects-crafting-platforms-as-a-product-max-korbacher-liquid-reply-hilliary-lipsig-red-hat [https://colocatedeventseu2025.sched.com/event/1u5mX/platform-engineering-for-architects-crafting-platforms-as-a-product-max-korbacher-liquid-reply-hilliary-lipsig-red-hat] Hilliary Lipsig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilliary-lipsig-a5935245/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilliary-lipsig-a5935245/] Max Körbächer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkoerbaecher/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkoerbaecher/] Andi Grabner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grabnerandi/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/grabnerandi/]