Lessons from Production
Lessons from Production brings you real-world stories from tech leaders who’ve been in the trenches. Each episode dives into the challenges, hard-earned lessons, and behind-the-scenes insights from building and scaling technology in production. No fluff, just practical takeaways from experts who’ve lived it.
Podcasting since 2025 • 6 episodes
Lessons from Production
Latest Episodes
Grafana's CTO on Open Source, Observability & Building Real Value
I spoke with Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana about what it’s like scaling open source projects while building a commercial company around them. Discussed the challenges, lessons, and what goes on behind the scenes of a tool so many of us use.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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49:48
Scaling Open Source Databases
In this episode of Lessons from Production, I’m joined by Bhanu from TiDB and Nikhil from ElasticRun. We dive into what it really takes to run open source databases at scale, from architecture choices to reliability challenges, performance tuni...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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52:56
How to Achieve Cloud Cost Observability?
Observability has been the buzzword across the stack, and businesses are toiling hard to achieve end-to-end visibility. While tech observability is fairly mature, cloud cost observability remains a missing link.In this episode of Lesson...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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