The InfoQ Podcast

A podcast by InfoQ intended for architects and senior developers.

Talking Traces and OpenTelemetry

Hosted by Jon Dodson, Alex Arnell

Jon Dodson has an 11-year Heroku veteran with him on the podcast this week, Principal Member of Technical Staff Alex Arnell. Together they talk through the native integration of OpenTelemetry in Heroku Fir, the benefits of traces over traditional logs, how they assist debugging, and what’s next for observability in modern development.

Hosted By:

Jon Dodson

Software Engineering LMTS, Heroku

with Guest:

Alex Arnell

Software Engineering PMTS, Heroku

The InfoQ Podcast • June 19th, 2020

Johnny Boursiquot on Serverless Go and Site Reliability Engineering at Heroku

In this podcast, Johnny Boursiquot, Site Reliability Engineer at Heroku, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed topics that included: why Go is a useful language for building Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) style applications; how Heroku implement the role of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE); and why the ability to teach is such a valuable skill.