The Production-First Mindset
Learn how the top brands wow customers through production-first engineering. On this podcast you will find the tactics, methodologies, and metrics used to drive customer value by the engineering leaders actually doing it. Join Rookout CTO, Liran Haimovitch as he explores how customer-centric brands approach engineering to create a competitive advantage; with interviews covering topics such as automation, issue resolution, team structure, DevOps, and more.
Episodes
43 episodes
XM Cyber's Tamar Stern - A Whole New World Of The SDLC
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Tamar Stern , BackEnd Group Leader at XM Cyber. They discuss how she got into the world of conference public speaking, how performance for Nodejs is different from other languages, how to go abo...
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Episode 43
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26:32
Transmit Security's Orit Yaron - Making New Mistakes
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Orit Yaron , VP Cloud Platform at Transmit Security. They discuss technical vs. cultural priorities, how they handle on-call rotations and keep it from being a burden, human error and how it can...
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Episode 42
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22:08
Cherre's Stefan Thorpe - Heading Straight For The Cloud
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Stefan Thorpe , CEO at Cherre. They discuss how he knew that the cloud was where he was going to go, the whole point of DevOps, why they monitor everything, what they’re doing with Kubernetes an...
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Episode 41
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25:54
Deepchecks's Shir Chorev - Where The Machine Learning Part Comes In
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Shir Chorev, CTO at Deepchecks. They discuss what machine learning means to her, why we’re far away from aliens taking over the world, how machine learning is different from traditional engineer...
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Episode 40
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23:02
Sentra's Ron Reiter - The Importance of Usefulness
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Ron Reiter, Co-Founder & CTO at Sentra. They discuss his experience selling his previous company, why he tries to do as little DevOps as he can, what it was like running a production service...
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Episode 39
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33:39
Lawgeex's Julia Shub - The Importance of Processes
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Julia Shub, DevOps Lead at Lawgeex. They discuss being the rising star of DevOps, her experience being a DevOps engineer and the switch over to it, the importance of processes surrounding the de...
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Episode 38
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30:47
Doordash's Sudeeptha Jothiprakash - Where The Powerhouses Of Containers And Serverless Come In
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Sudeeptha Jothiprakash, Product Lead at Doordash. They discuss solving consumer issues, being able to find the needle in the haystack of containers, gaining a deep level of granularity without s...
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Episode 37
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24:30
Wix.com's Hila Fish - Doing Something With Your Data
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Hila Fish, Sr. DevOps Engineer at Wix.com. They discuss being a fan of open-source, dealing with the unexpected , understanding the nature of migrations, the challenges of deploying Gitlab on a ...
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Episode 36
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23:58
Netsertive's Herb Brittner - Going Beyond The Cookie Cutter
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Herb Brittner, Sr. Director of Technology at Netsertive. They discuss running Java and PHP side by side in modern cloud environments, solving problems for customers, making sure everything isn’t...
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Episode 35
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19:55
Box's Tamar Bercovici - The North Star Of Your System
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Tamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering at Box. They discuss what it was like growing from a senior engineer to VP of Engineering, her cloud journey of 20+ years, the process of migrating workflows t...
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Episode 34
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30:19
Rookout's Dudi Cohen - How To Live In The Debugging Moment
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Dudi Cohen, VP R&D at Rookout. They discuss the small nature of startups and its effects, why passion = potential when it comes to learning tech, developing for developers, why developers sh...
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Episode 33
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26:18
Riskified's Boris Cherkasky - Getting Comfortable In Production
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Boris Cherkasky, Software Engineer and Production Advocate at Riskified. They discuss setting expectations for what the future looks like, his experience mentoring over the years, why he wants t...
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Episode 32
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32:40
Oribi's Eynav Mass - Being Accountable From End to End
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Eynav Mass, VP R&D at Oribi. They discuss what Oribi is all about, adapting SDLC to the data that works in production, the culture required to move fast and take risks, and how t...
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Episode 31
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22:11
Munch CTO, Peter Naftaliev - Interacting With A System
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Peter Naftaliev who is the CTO at Munch. They discuss his journey that brought him to Munch, what it means to build an automation platform for content creators, his experience launching an MVP (...
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Episode 30
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20:02
Fidelity Investment's Jin Chun - Drinking The Scrum Kool Aid
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Jin Chun who is the Senior Vice President and Head of Cognitive Computing at Fidelity Investments. They discuss the role of tech within Fidelity, his experience of doing agile early on, ho...
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Episode 29
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24:41
Vonage's Amitha Pulijala - Anticipating The Unanticipated
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Amitha Pulijala, Vice President of Product at Vonage. They discuss how APIs are the fuel of customer experiences, what it’s like running a business with developers as their core users, video ser...
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Episode 28
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19:37
Aspectiva's Victoriya Kalmanovich - Operating NLP At Scale
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Victoriya Kalmanovich, Engineering Manager at Aspectiva. They discuss operating NLP at scale, her experience joining a company post-acquisition, how it is to collaborate with such a huge enterpr...
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Episode 27
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20:01
Anton Drukh - The Definition of Done
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Anton Drukh, Tech Executive Mentor. They discuss diving deep into helping other engineering leaders…and helping them skip the mistakes that he made, feeling more comfortable in the production en...
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Episode 26
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23:15
Jeff Davis - Automation Will Set Our Minds Free
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Jeff Davis, Enterprise Agility Evangelist at Evernorth. They discuss what difference agile and shift-left made in coaching, why it’s okay to ruffle feathers, what to do about unplanned work in p...
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Episode 25
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23:49
Logz.io's Dotan Horovits - Putting The Spotlight On Observability
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Dotan Horovits, Principal Advocate at Logz.io. They discuss his passion for open-source and communities…and how that led him to his current position, Open Observability Talks (his own podcast), ...
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Episode 24
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24:45
DraftKings's Idan Fridman - Survival Instinct In Startups
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Idan Fridman, Director of Engineering at DraftKings. They discuss his experience having his company be acquired, working with product stakeholders and finding common ground, building the culture...
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Episode 23
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21:55
Or Hiltch, JLL Technologies - Looking Beyond The Bottom Line
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Or Hiltch, VP of Engineering at JLL Technologies. They discuss how dentistry shaped his love of tech, working with - and processing - large amounts of data, why Serverless should always wi...
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Episode 22
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32:47
Indeni's Alon Ashkenazi - The Next-Gen of Infrastructure As Code
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Alon Ashkenazi, VP of Engineering at Indeni. They discuss the next-gen of infrastructure as code security, complicated cloud architectures and how to control the different aspects of them,...
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Episode 21
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26:45
JP Beaudry, CTO of 2U - Facing The Daily Crisis
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with JP Beaudry, CTO of 2U. They discuss how you redefine open-source within your company, what to do to make the open-source community feel more involved, and balancing market demands wi...
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Episode 20
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27:55
Barak Yoresh, Lightricks - How To Have Pager Duty And Never Get Paged
Rookout CTO Liran Haimovitch sits down with Barak Yoresh, Head of iOS Platform at Lightricks. They discuss how things are different for mobile offerings than SaaS, how working with Apple feels like, how to go about monitoring your a...
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Episode 19
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23:21