When Every Millisecond Matters: Observability at Massive Scale with Todd Persen

About this episode

The episode discusses the critical importance of observability in modern systems and its impact on business outcomes.

Send us Fan Mail A 10 minute delay between an incident and the data that explains it is not a tooling problem, it is a business problem. We sit down with Todd Pearson, CTO and co-founder of Hydrolix, to unpack why milliseconds now determine whether you stop fraud, keep a streaming event online, or lose a customer before your team even sees the alert. We talk about the real mechanics of modern observability across distributed systems: where latency hides in the pipeline, how it inflates MTTR,...

People in this episode

Host: Jim Kunkle

Guest: Todd Pearson

Topics covered

• observability
• latency
• distributed systems
• business impact
• fraud prevention

Keywords

• observability
• latency
• MTTR
• fraud
• streaming events
• data delay

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hydrolix

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