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PurePerformance

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The brutal truth about digital performance engineering and operations.Andreas (aka Andi) Grabner and Brian Wilson are veterans of the digital performance world. Combined they have seen too many applications not scaling and performing up to expectations. With more rapid deployment models made possible through continuous delivery and a mentality shift sparked by DevOps they feel it’s time to share t... more

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When AI can generate and optimize code at scale, does that make software greener — or just faster to get wrong - or does it cost more to train and run those AI models then the savings we have optimizing our own software? Anne Currie, co-author of O'R... more

AI coding tools are everywhere, but how do you prove they're actually making engineers more productive?

In this episode of PurePerformance, hosts Brian Wilson and Andi Grabner welcome Michael Reichenbach, Platform Engineer at 1KOMMA5°, to discuss the... more

"There is no single way to deploy OpenTelemetry at scale—and that’s exactly the challenge."

As organizations adopt OTel across teams and environments, they face tough questions around standardization, configuration, and operating resilient observabil... more

I still hear people say, “OpenTelemetry is vendor-neutral, so you can switch any time!”

In this episode, Adriana Villela and Josh Lee (both active OpenTelemetry contributors) help bust that myth.

While OTel standardizes instrumentation and signal tra... more

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Dan Gomez Blanco
Principal observability architect at New Relic
New Relic
Episode: Blueprints for OTel Success: Standardizing Observability at Scale with Dan Gomez Blanco
Adriana Villela
Principal Developer Advocate, Dynatrace
Dynatrace
Episode: OpenTelemetry and the Reality of Vendor Choice with Adriana Villela and Josh Lee
Josh Lee
Open source advocate at Altenity, observability SME
Altenity
Episode: OpenTelemetry and the Reality of Vendor Choice with Adriana Villela and Josh Lee
Rainer Stropek
Co-founder and CEO of Software Architects, Linz, Austria
Software Architects
Episode: AI Is a Gift: Rethinking Software Engineering Education and Hiring
Rob Rati
Business-context-focused contributor with SRE and reliability engineering background
ECMI Financial Services (example from the book context)
Episode: Observability in the AI‑Native Era with Hilliary Lipsig and Rob Rati
Lukas Holzer
Co-founder of Straion
Straion
Episode: Don't babysit your AI Agents to keep them on track with Lukas Holzer
Chris LaBrado
Solutions Architect at QVC group under Home Shopping Network banner
QVC/HSN
Episode: From Bowling Lanes to AI Lanes: Chris LaBrado on MDCD and the AI Interface Era
Adam Tornhill
Author of Your Code as a Crime Scene; founder of CodeScene
CodeScene
Episode: AI-Ready Codebases: Engineering Discipline for Agentic AI with Adam Tornhill
Wolfgang Heider
Product Manager at Dynatrace
Dynatrace
Episode: AI‑Native: Building Faster Than We Can Spec with Wolfgang Heider & Benedict Evert

Hosts

Andi Grabner
Co-host of the show, author of the book, leading the conversation
Brian Wilson
Co-host of PurePerformance in Dynatrace; frequent guest and presenter
Andreas Grabner
Co-host of Pure Performance (co-host)

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 32 ratings
  • Outstanding

    Big fan of Andi and Brian. Excellent podcast to be on the latest in Reliability.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    narada108
    United States5 months ago
  • Engaging & Tactical!

    You'd be hard-pressed to find the kind of insight that Andi, Brian, and their knowledgeable guests have on all things digital performance on any other show out there. Engaging, tactical, and helpful are just a few of the words I'd use to describe the time you'll spend with them. Thanks so much for putting out such a dynamic show guys - keep up the great work!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    kjb0514
    United States3 years ago
  • Practical advice from competent hosts

    It helped me a lot to make better decisions. And it is fun to listen.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    J.LAUBER
    Switzerland4 years ago
  • Get your stopwatches ready!

    PurePerformance is an essential testing, performance, digital transformation, and application tech podcast. Part good performance reminders, part funny conversations, and part amazing performance tips, this podcast keeps it fun and interesting.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Japangrffd
    United States9 years ago

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Show balances technical depth with pragmatic business context
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Outstanding episodes with highly actionable reliability insights
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80% AI-Written Code: How 1KOMMA5 Measured the Real Impact of AI on Engineering
Q: Can you share what data points and metrics actually worked, and which ones didn't tell you much?
Precise, objective measures of coding time and cycle time were most telling. Change lead time improved modestly, but the biggest signal came from the reduction in coding time (about 70%), while lagging Dora metrics didn't reflect the immediate impact well.
Blueprints for OTel Success: Standardizing Observability at Scale with Dan Gomez Blanco
Q: Are you hearing a demand for blueprints or reference implementations, and how to gradually convert an existing observability implementation to OpenTelemetry?
There is growing interest in transitioning to OpenTelemetry, with emphasis on guidance for moving non-Kubernetes environments to OTEL, and potential extensions to support gradual migration and vendor-neutral strategies.
Blueprints for OTel Success: Standardizing Observability at Scale with Dan Gomez Blanco
Q: Will the blueprints cover best practices for developers for instrumenting the code, or will it focus only on deployment of the data pipeline?
The current focus is on deployment and platform patterns, but there is a plan to extend into telemetry quality and developer-oriented guidance, including semantic conventions and instrumenting best practices in future blueprints.
Blueprints for OTel Success: Standardizing Observability at Scale with Dan Gomez Blanco
Q: Can you give us an example of one of the reference implementations and what people can learn from it?
Dan discusses Skyscanner as a key reference implementation, highlighting how centralized telemetry and scalable gateway patterns can support vendor neutrality while enabling platform engineering practices.
From Zero to Open Source Contributor with Diana Todea
Q: What are your thoughts on AI contributions to open source?
AI can be helpful to generate ideas or structure contributions but needs to be thoroughly checked and polished before submission.

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A practical, engineering-forward show focused on digital performance, reliability, and observability across modern cloud-native stacks. Episodes typically feature practitioners and experts discussing scaling, incident response, platform engineering, AI-assisted tooling, and the human factors behind reliable systems. Listeners are likely engineers, SREs, and product/tech leaders seeking actionable methods, governance guidance, and real-world anecdotes to improve performance, throughput, and developer experience. The format often blends technical depth with business context, making it valuable for teams implementing or buying into performance-focused tooling and practices. A notable pattern is the emphasis on observability, reliability cultur... more

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