Cloud Native Observability with Martin Mao

Aug 31, 2022 by SED

Maintaining availability in a modern digital application is critical to keeping your application operating and available and to keep meeting your customers growing demands. There are many observability platforms out there and certainly Prometheus is a popular open source solution for cloud native companies yet operating an observability platform, costs money, and all of the platforms are highly data intensive.

Managing costs and data retention policies is critical to keeping your application operating healthy and operating available. Chronosphere is the leading observability platform for scaling cloud native applications. Focusing on managing costs by managing data. Martin Mao is the co-founder and CEO of Chronosphere and he is our guest today .

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His most recent book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media) is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.
Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Subscribe at mdb.fm. Follow Lee, at leeatchison.com.

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