Designing Enterprise Platforms

On the latest edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Raj Dutt, CEO of Grafana about observability. It’s a concept that Woods has been studying since learning of what Etsy did to make the development process faster. Etsy created huge amounts of observability so they could actually make many changes every day and if anything went wrong, they would find out about it immediately. This practice has become popular in DevOps and in monitoring operational environments. Dutt has been working on software structure that supports observability. Their conversation covered: 4:30 — The origins of Grafana Labs 18:20 — Grafana Labs’ focus 39:00 — The benefits of a platform approach 47:00 — The challenges of this approach 51:00 — The positive and negative trends in open source right now