Cloud Native Spotlight: KEDA & Dapr Projects - OpenObservability Talks S6E04

In this episode we explore how Dapr and KEDA—two CNCF graduated projects—are reshaping cloud-native application development and what that means for observability. From event-driven architectures to autoscaling and service runtime, we discuss how these building blocks fit into modern systems. We discuss major capabilities around resilience, scalability, observability and even agentic AI support. Our guest for this episode is Yaron Schneider, co-creator of both Dapr and KEDA projects, and co-founder and CTO of Diagrid. He also brings years of leadership at Microsoft on scalable cloud architecture. You can read the recap posts: Part 1 - Dapr: https://medium.com/p/eb2f4013d9a1/ Part 2 - KEDA: https://medium.com/p/d74f75c0021a/ Show Notes: 00:00 - episode intro 01:19 - guest intro and Dapr & KEDA intro 04.53 - why Microsoft created KEDA 14:43 - why Microsoft decided to open-source KEDA 16:58 - why Microsoft created Dapr 24:52 - observability in Dapr 33:38 - shifting from logs to traces 37:46 - building a startup around foundation-led open source 46:22 - agentic AI support in Dapr 49:11 - Dapr updates and roadmap 52:15 - KEDA updates and roadmap 53:50 - Dapr at KubeCon NA 55:08 - Jaeger celebrates 10th anniversary 56:13 - OpenTelemetry Collector user survey 56:58 - proposal for a new OTel SIG for resource metadata semantic conventions 1:00:00 - outro Resources: Dapr: https://dapr.io/ KEDA: https://keda.sh/ Dapr accepted to graduation, Dec 2024, my LI post: https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:7262354292794159105 Announcing Dapr AI Agents: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03/12/announcing-dapr-ai-agents/ Jaeger 10th anniversary: https://medium.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-at-10-forged-in-community-reborn-in-opentelemetry-621d4eabdeda Jaeger v2 and alignment with OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774 Proposal for a new OpenTelemetry SIG: Service and Deployment Semantic Conventions: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2837/ OTel Collector Follow-up Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbpqBcCVfmRj_Rk_Sd6zaBGpfzGSBvSZ6CdVn6PPBbbmPIOw/viewform Socials: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/OpenObserv⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks⁠ Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: https://twitter.com/horovits LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/horovits.bsky.social Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@horovits Yaron Schneider ============== Twitter: https://x.com/yaronschneider LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaron-schneider-2130b7a3/ The podcast episodes are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube.