You Are Not Broken: A Candid Talk on Burnout & Mental Health with Roman Ferstl
Three years ago, Roman Ferstl — entrepreneur, founder, and returning PurePerformance guest — found himself experiencing something he struggl...
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Can AI Save the Planet — Or Is It the Problem? Building Green Software With Anne Currie
When AI can generate and optimize code at scale, does that make software greener — or just faster to get wrong - or does it cost more to tra...
80% AI-Written Code: How 1KOMMA5 Measured the Real Impact of AI on Engineering
AI coding tools are everywhere, but how do you prove they're actually making engineers more productive? In this episode of PurePerformance,...
Blueprints for OTel Success: Standardizing Observability at Scale with Dan Gomez Blanco
"There is no single way to deploy OpenTelemetry at scale—and that’s exactly the challenge." As organizations adopt OTel across teams and env...
OpenTelemetry and the Reality of Vendor Choice with Adriana Villela and Josh Lee
I still hear people say, “OpenTelemetry is vendor-neutral, so you can switch any time!” In this episode, Adriana Villela and Josh Lee (both...
AI Is a Gift: Rethinking Software Engineering Education and Hiring
In this episode, we explore how AI is transforming education, from classrooms to corporate training. What changes are needed in schools and...
Beyond the Hype: Open Source, Observability, and Finding Your AI Breakthrough
Its rare - but it happens: A guest-free episode of PurePerformance, allowing Andi Grabner and Brian Wilson reconnect to share real-world ins...
8 Factor Producers to Scale Platform Engineering in an AI-First world with Abby Bangser
In 2011 Heroku defined the 12 factor app to remove emerging bottlenecks as developers tried to scale their output when they moved from build...
Observability in the AI‑Native Era with Hilliary Lipsig and Rob Rati
As the software world is transforming from cloud native to AI-native, observability must transform with it. But how exactly? How do we apply...
Don't babysit your AI Agents to keep them on track with Lukas Holzer
AI coding agents are fast—but speed alone doesn’t guarantee quality. In this episode, Andi Grabner talks with Lukas Holzer (Straion) about w...
From Bowling Lanes to AI Lanes: Chris LaBrado on MDCD and the AI Interface Era
In this episode of the PurePerformance Podcast, Andi and Brian sit down with Chris LaBrado —Solutions Architect for AI Enablement, FSO, SRE,...
AI-Ready Codebases: Engineering Discipline for Agentic AI with Adam Tornhill
In this episode, Andi and Brian welcome back Adam Tornhill—founder of CodeScene and author of Your Code as a Crime Scene —to explore how age...
AI‑Native: Building Faster Than We Can Spec with Wolfgang Heider & Benedict Evert
AI is transforming software engineering—faster than many teams can adapt. In this episode, Andi talks with Wolfgang Heider and Benedict Ever...
Resilience in the Age of AI and Why we Still Suck at it with Adrian Hornsby
Why do we still struggle with resilience in 2026? Is it the growing complexity of systems, the pressure to ship fast, or a lack of education...
From Zero to Open Source Contributor with Diana Todea
Contributing to Open Source is easier than ever - especially because contributions are needed for documentation, demos, tutorials and code....
The many facets of an SRE with Alexandra Franz
From Systems Engineer in Aeronautics via many clouds to becoming an SRE in Observability! That's the path from our guest, Alexandra Franz wh...
10 Fundamentals to get Vibe Coding right with Jeff Blankenburg
If you are still treating your AI Coding Agent like a chat bot and not like a development team then this is one more reason to tune into thi...
Semiotics - A Future of Observability we are yet to see with William Louth
How many people have you met that implemented distributed tracing in the early 2000s? Make it one more after you have tuned into our latest...
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Architecting with Abhimanyu Selvan
It started with the prompt: "Create an Uber Clone"! Several iterations and some months later Abhi presents his lessons learned when vibing a...
AI-Augmented Chaos Engineering in Practice with Bartek Pisulak
Chaos Engineering is the practice to introduced controlled failures into a system with the goal to improve the overall resiliency! What star...