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You can read more about Spiros on his LinkedIn or Twitter.

There is some good backstory on his first company, Log Insight, here. A rundown of the acquisition that led to Spiros joining Splunk is here. There are also some interesting details in Splunk's blog on the deal, which calls out Omnition as a "a stealth-mode SaaS company that is innovating in distributed tracing, improving monitoring across microservices applications."

If you enjoy the conversation and want to hear more, Spiros has done some interesting talks that are up on Youtube here.

Our lifeboat of the week goes to Willie Mentzel, who explains how to: Round Double to 1 decimal place in kotlin: from 0.044999 to 0.1.

 

Most of us won't learn as much in a career about DevOps as Banjot Chanana forgets in an afternoon. Having built teams and products that have given rise to DevOps over a 20-year career as a product leader, Banjot is qualified to have strong opinions about the right ways to develop and deploy software. The best part? He's as enthusiastic as ever about what's ahead.

Listen and learn...

1. Where there are opportunities to innovate in and around DevOps.
2. Where VMs failed and created an opportunity for containers.
3. What ephemeral infrastructure means for the future of CI/CD.
4. What attributes are common across companies with great product cultures.

Companies and projects referenced:

• Open Telemetry
• Backstage
• Sentry
• CloudPhysics

Series: Traces of the Kingdom
Speaker: Bob Koo
Scripture: Nehemiah 13:6-8, 14

Synopsis: After the revival that takes place in the book of Nehemiah, there is great disappointment that permeates the final chapter. Such an anticlimax reminds us of the constant need for renewal, both corporately and individually. We also learn that people do not change through behavior modification, but by encountering the all-consuming heart of Jesus.

Shruti Mahajan is a visual artist based in Hyderabad. She has been interested in precarious structures and through them lived lives that navigate liminal and transient spaces, including but not limited to the border regions. Through material and media that suggest the fragility of these archives that emerge and dissipate — envelopes, inland letters, cardboard structures — she enters the fraught domain of identity and memory.

In this one of a kind Podcast, learn about the artist's journey, inspiration and what divides her art from the rest.