Grafana, with Torkel Ödegaard - a podcast by Adam Glick and Craig Box

Torkel Ödegaard is the creator and project lead of Grafana, and co-founder of Grafana Labs. Learn how Torkel went from modding video games to building a data visualization platform, and co-founding a company that is now offering a complete monitoring service built on Prometheus.

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Chatter of the week

• On The Basis Of Sex


• RBG


• Star Trek: Picard

News of the week

• CVE-2020-14386


• gVisor: Containing a real vulnerability by Fabricio Voznika


• Announcing IBM Cloud Code Engine


• Docker Enterprise Container Cloud


• Mirantis rethinks Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes by
  Beth Pariseau


• Episode 110, with Adrian Ionel


• KubeEdge approved as CNCF incubating project


• kubeapply and Kubernetes configuration at Segment


• Introducing Grafana Metrics Enterprise


• Pure Storage to acquire Portworx
  
  
  
  • Portworx acquired by Pure Storage
  
  
  
  


• Ionir exits stealth and promises instant data mobility


• NetApp Cloud Volumes Service powered by GKE


• AKS adds CSI driver for Files and Disks


• Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.5


• VMware Tanzu:
  
  
  
  • Announcing vSphere with Tanzu
  
  
  • One of four new editions
  
  
  • vSAN Data Persistence Platform
  
  
  • Mission Control expands policy management capabilities
  
  
  
  


• SentinelOne announce automated applicaiton control for containers


• 16 CNCF interns graduate from Google Summer of Code
  
  
  
  • Building operators for cluster add-ons by Somtochi Onyekwere
  
  
  
  


• CFPs open for ServiceMeshCon and Cloud Native Security Day North America


• A Year of Kubernetes at GitLab
  
  
  
  • Episode 89, with Marin Jankovski
  
  
  
  

Links from the interview

• The 2001 dot-com crash


• Rocket Arena mod for Quake 3


• Extreme ironing


• Tradera
  
  
  
  • IT contracting
  
  
  • The Mythical Man Month
  
  
  
  


• Graphite


• Kibana


• Grafana
  
  
  
  • GitHub
  
  
  • The history of Grafana UX
  
  
  
  


• Grafana Labs
  
  
  
  • Team
  
  
  
  


• Kausal


• Cortex


• Loki


• Crystal Reports


• Interesting use cases:
  
  
  
  • Beehive monitor
  
  
  • Hospital queue visualisation
  
  
  • Monitoring Art plugin
  
  
  
  


• A $50m Series B funding round


• Grafana Metrics Enterprise


• Recommended reading: Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds


• Torkel Ödegaard on Twitter

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