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

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

May 25, 2026 · 37 min · Season 3 · Episode 21

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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,...

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