The Production-First Mindset



XM Cyber's Tamar Stern - A Whole New World Of The SDLC

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 12 Jun 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Tamar Stern , BackEnd Group Leader at XM Cyber. They discuss how she got into the world of conference public speaking, how performance for Nodejs is different from other languages, how to go about under

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Transmit Security's Orit Yaron - Making New Mistakes

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 15 May 2022 22:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Orit Yaron , VP Cloud Platform at Transmit Security. They discuss technical vs. cultural priorities, how they handle on-call rotations and keep it from being a burden, human error and how it can be used

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Cherre's Stefan Thorpe - Heading Straight For The Cloud

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 08 May 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Stefan Thorpe , CEO at Cherre. They discuss how he knew that the cloud was where he was going to go, the whole point of DevOps, why they monitor everything, what they’re doing with Kubernetes and why th

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Deepchecks's Shir Chorev - Where The Machine Learning Part Comes In

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 01 May 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Shir Chorev, CTO at Deepchecks. They discuss what machine learning means to her, why we’re far away from aliens taking over the world, how machine learning is different from traditional engineering, and

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Sentra's Ron Reiter - The Importance of Usefulness

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 24 Apr 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Ron Reiter, Co-Founder CTO at Sentra. They discuss his experience selling his previous company, why he tries to do as little DevOps as he can, what it was like running a production service within

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Lawgeex's Julia Shub - The Importance of Processes

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 17 Apr 2022 21:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Julia Shub, DevOps Lead at Lawgeex. They discuss being the rising star of DevOps, her experience being a DevOps engineer and the switch over to it, the importance of processes surrounding the developmen

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Doordash's Sudeeptha Jothiprakash - Where The Powerhouses Of Containers And Serverless Come In

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 10 Apr 2022 22:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Sudeeptha Jothiprakash, Product Lead at Doordash. They discuss solving consumer issues, being able to find the needle in the haystack of containers, gaining a deep level of granularity without spiraling

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Wix.com's Hila Fish - Doing Something With Your Data

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 03 Apr 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Hila Fish, Sr. DevOps Engineer at Wix.com. They discuss being a fan of open-source, dealing with the unexpected , understanding the nature of migrations, the challenges of deploying Gitlab on a GKE, and

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Netsertive's Herb Brittner - Going Beyond The Cookie Cutter

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 27 Mar 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Herb Brittner, Sr. Director of Technology at Netsertive. They discuss running Java and PHP side by side in modern cloud environments, solving problems for customers, making sure everything isn’t cookie

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Box's Tamar Bercovici - The North Star Of Your System

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 20 Mar 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Tamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering at Box. They discuss what it was like growing from a senior engineer to VP of Engineering, her cloud journey of 20+ years, the process of migrating workflows to run ma

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Rookout's Dudi Cohen - How To Live In The Debugging Moment

By Liran Haimovitch/Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Dudi Cohen, VP RD at Rookout. They discuss the small nature of startups and its effects, why passion = potential when it comes to learning tech, developing for developers, why developers should sto

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Riskified's Boris Cherkasky - Getting Comfortable In Production

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 06 Mar 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Boris Cherkasky, Software Engineer and Production Advocate at Riskified. They discuss setting expectations for what the future looks like, his experience mentoring over the years, why he wants to stop h

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Oribi's Eynav Mass - Being Accountable From End to End

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 27 Feb 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Eynav Mass, VP RD at Oribi. They discuss what Oribi is all about, adapting SDLC to the data that works in production, the culture required to move fast and take risks, and how they know what’s go

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Munch CTO, Peter Naftaliev - Interacting With A System

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 20 Feb 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Peter Naftaliev who is the CTO at Munch. They discuss his journey that brought him to Munch, what it means to build an automation platform for content creators, his experience launching an MVP (minimum

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Fidelity Investment's Jin Chun - Drinking The Scrum Kool Aid

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Jin Chun who is the Senior Vice President and Head of Cognitive Computing at Fidelity Investments. They discuss the role of tech within Fidelity, his experience of doing agile early on, how scrum looks

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Vonage's Amitha Pulijala - Anticipating The Unanticipated

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 06 Feb 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Amitha Pulijala, Vice President of Product at Vonage. They discuss how APIs are the fuel of customer experiences, what it’s like running a business with developers as their core users, video services an

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Aspectiva's Victoriya Kalmanovich - Operating NLP At Scale

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Victoriya Kalmanovich, Engineering Manager at Aspectiva. They discuss operating NLP at scale, her experience joining a company post-acquisition, how it is to collaborate with such a huge enterprise from

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Anton Drukh - The Definition of Done

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 23 Jan 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Anton Drukh, Tech Executive Mentor. They discuss diving deep into helping other engineering leaders…and helping them skip the mistakes that he made, feeling more comfortable in the production environmen

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Jeff Davis - Automation Will Set Our Minds Free

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 16 Jan 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Jeff Davis, Enterprise Agility Evangelist at Evernorth. They discuss what difference agile and shift-left made in coaching, why it’s okay to ruffle feathers, what to do about unplanned work in productio

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Logz.io's Dotan Horovits - Putting The Spotlight On Observability

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 09 Jan 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Dotan Horovits, Principal Advocate at Logz.io. They discuss his passion for open-source and communities…and how that led him to his current position, Open Observability Talks (his own podcast), his take

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DraftKings's Idan Fridman - Survival Instinct In Startups

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Idan Fridman, Director of Engineering at DraftKings. They discuss his experience having his company be acquired, working with product stakeholders and finding common ground, building the culture at Blue

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Or Hiltch, JLL Technologies - Looking Beyond The Bottom Line

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Or Hiltch, VP of Engineering at JLL Technologies. They discuss how dentistry shaped his love of tech, working with - and processing - large amounts of data, why Serverless should always win, and the tr

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Indeni's Alon Ashkenazi - The Next-Gen of Infrastructure As Code

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Alon Ashkenazi, VP of Engineering at Indeni. They discuss the next-gen of infrastructure as code security, complicated cloud architectures and how to control the different aspects of them, and helping

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JP Beaudry, CTO of 2U - Facing The Daily Crisis

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with JP Beaudry, CTO of 2U. They discuss how you redefine open-source within your company, what to do to make the open-source community feel more involved, and balancing market demands with internal techni

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Barak Yoresh, Lightricks - How To Have Pager Duty And Never Get Paged

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Barak Yoresh, Head of iOS Platform at Lightricks. They discuss how things are different for mobile offerings than SaaS, how working with Apple feels like, how to go about monitoring your apps deployed

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Appsflyer's Nir Rubinstein - Databases, Databases Everywhere

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 28 Nov 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Nir Rubenstein, Chief Architect at Appsflyer. They discuss why they prioritized using functional code, scaling from 3 engineers to 300, how the main difficulties of working at Appsflyer revolve around

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Jobvite's Ron Teeter - Own Your Code With Fullstack Observability

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 21 Nov 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Ron Teeter, Vice President Of Engineering at Jobvite. They discuss how valuable diversity is in tech, where the trigger point is on new technology, tech debt: how much can you afford to borrow vs what

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Michael Gillett - Shifting Dev Mindsets

By Liran Haimovitch/Mon, 15 Nov 2021 21:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Michael Gillett, Author and Head of Development at Win Technologies and proud member of the Betway Group. They discuss the modern software development cycle, Michael’s new book on feature management (w

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Slack's Suman Karumuri - The Journey To Being A Founder Of Modern Tracing

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Suman Karumuri, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Slack. They discuss the tools and techniques that make up modern observability, living through a major incident at Slack...and what was done to nurse Sl

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Anais Urlichs - Is It Worth Going The Extra Mile?

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Anais Urlichs, an SRE at Civo. They discuss her journey into the world of cloud-native, being a part of the Kubernetes-focused generation, if you really need to implement it to your production environm

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Parametrix Insurance's Co-Founder & CTO, Neta Rozy - Keep Your Chill During Downtimes

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 24 Oct 2021 20:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Neta Rozy, Parametrix Insurances Co-Founder and CTO. They discuss why redundancy is key to everything they do, how to stay calm and collected during downtime, and evaluating products for their av

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Datorama’s Ilai Gilenberg - We'll Figure It Out Next Sprint

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Ilai Gilenberg, Datoramas Director of RD. They discuss how to make sure that the code meets their standards, if we should focus on product or engineering excellence, the mentality of figuring

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Gitlab’s Wayne Haber- The Dilemmas of Dual Nature

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 10 Oct 2021 22:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Wayne Haber, Gitlab’s Director of Engineering. They discuss how Wayne goes about differently operating his own SaaS version versus how he goes about releasing stuff for his customers, the dilemmas of th

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Bridgecrew's Barak Schoster Goihman- Turning Coffee Into Code

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 03 Oct 2021 03:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Barak Schoster Goihman, CTO Co-founder of Bridgecrew. They discuss modern cloud architectures and challenges, why decision-making with the top-down approach doesn’t work for developer tool adopti

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Dell Technologies Capital’s Tyler Jewell- The Dev Landscape And Paradigm Shifts

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 26 Sep 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, Tyler Jewell. They discuss his 2021 report of the developer-led landscape, including: the developer landscape’s new and exciting trends, the fundamental s

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Akita Software’s CEO, Jean Yang - Empowering The Everyday Developer

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 19 Sep 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Founder and CEO of Akita Software, Jean Yang. They discuss taking back the understanding of your system, a different approach to deploying observability, the DevOps revolution, and what it looks like to

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Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Infracost CEO - To Cloud Or Not To Cloud

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 12 Sep 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with CEO and Co-Founder of Infracost, Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini. They discuss the steep learning curve of growing open-source projects, the complexity of cloud pricing, what adopting open-source really means, an

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Ido Shamun, Daily.Dev- 100k Users And An Engineer

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 05 Sep 2021 22:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with CTO and Co-Founder of daily.dev, Ido Shamun. They discuss bringing order to the chaos that is developer news, having over 100k users as a single engineer, and what it’s like operating an open-source SaaS

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John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly CTO- The Nirvana Of Deploying 100x A Day

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 29 Aug 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with John Kodumal, CTO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly. They discuss maintaining quality and consistency in the product as your organization scales, getting to the nirvana of deploying a hundred times a day (

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OwnBackup’s Roi Dover- Even Log Lines Need Code Reviews

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Roi Dover, VP of Engineering at OwnBackup. They discuss how to serve customers better, the evolution from a single product to a multi-product company (and what that means for your RD team), and how

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Monday.com's Shanee Radzewsky - Focus On The Customer, Not The Code

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 15 Aug 2021 23:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Senior Full Stack Developer at Monday.com, Shanee Radzewsky. They discuss customer-focused engineering, the infamous Big Brain, and seeing the company grow from a small team to an IPO.Listen/Read More

Demi Ben-Ari, CTO of Panorays - What’s Trust Got To Do With It?

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 08 Aug 2021 04:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with CTO of Panorays, Demi Ben-Ari. They discuss visibility into production environments (and why it’s so crucial to your team), how shift left means ownership, and why bugs in production are the most costly

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JFrog's Stephen Chin: Refining the Craft of Coding

By Liran Haimovitch/Sun, 01 Aug 2021 08:00

Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with JFrogs VP of Developer Relations, Stephen Chin. They discuss how to refine the craft of coding, where the future of the Continuous Delivery Foundation is going, and how DevOps may end up looking a

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