Lessons from Production
Episodes
Grafana's CTO on Open Source, Observability & Building Real Value
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Scaling Open Source Databases
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
How to Achieve Cloud Cost Observability?
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Observability has been the buzzword across the stack, and businesses are toiling hard to achieve end-to-end visibility. While tech observability is fa...
Making DevSecOps Work by Balancing Speed, Security & Scale
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Lessons from Production, I sit down with Mark Mishaev, Chief Architect at Checkmarx (shoutout for sponsoring this episode), to talk...
Designing AI That Gets Out of Your Way
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sanskar started his journey as an open source contributor in India, moved to London to work at Bloomberg, and recently quit his job to move to San Fra...
Building the Spreadsheet of the Future
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google Sheets and Excel have been the default for decades. But why haven’t spreadsheets really evolved, even though millions rely on them every day?...