PurePerformance

The brutal truth about digital performance engineering and operations.

Andreas (aka Andi) Grabner and Brian Wilson are veterans of the digital performance world. Combined they have seen too many applications not scaling and performing up to expectations. With more rapid deployment models made possible through continuous delivery and a mentality shift sparked by DevOps they feel it’s time to share their stories. In each episode, they and their guests discuss different topics concerning performance, ranging from common performance problems for specific technology platforms to best practices in development, testing, deploying and monitoring software performance and user experience. Be prepared to learn a lot about metrics.

Andi & Brian both work at Dynatrace, where they get to witness more real world customer performance issues than they can TPS report at.

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#267
August 31 · 1 hr 44 min
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 struggled to explain to anyone who hadn't lived it. In this episode, he joins Andi Grabner and Brian Wilson to talk...
#266
August 17 · 48 min
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 train and run those AI models then the savings we have optimizing our own software? Anne Currie, co-author of...
#265
August 3 · 52 min
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, hosts Brian Wilson and Andi Grabner welcome Michael Reichenbach, Platform Engineer at 1KOMMA5°, to discuss the...
#246
July 20 · 52 min
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 environments, they face tough questions around standardization, configuration, and operating resilient...
#263
July 6 · 51 min
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 active OpenTelemetry contributors) help bust that myth. While OTel standardizes instrumentation and signal...
#262
June 22 · 56 min
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 universities? How does AI affect both students and educators? And how should companies rethink internal...
#261
June 8 · 34 min
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 insights from recent months in the cloud-native and observability space. From KubeCon Amsterdam experiences and...
#260
May 25 · 34 min
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 building monoliths to microservices. In Platform Engineer we see a repeating pattern called the "8 Factor Platform...
#259
May 11 · 51 min
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 this in an existing enterprise with established processes and practices? In this PurePerformance episode, Andi...
#258
April 27 · 38 min
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 why large context files and “almost right” AI code create new risks for engineering teams. You will learn about...
#257
April 13 · 54 min
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 https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrislabrado/—Solutions Architect for AI Enablement, FSO, SRE, and ITSM at HSN/QVC, where he has spent an incredible 27 years shaping operational...
#256
March 30 · 52 min
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 agentic AI is reshaping software engineering. Adam shares his personal journey from 40 years of hands-on coding to...
#255
March 16 · 43 min
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 Evert about what it really means to build “AI‑native” software, where prototypes turn into production apps in...
#254
March 2 · 51 min
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 around resilient design? In this episode we welcome Adrian Hornsby from Resilium Labs to explore these...
#253
February 16 · 47 min
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. But how to get started? Where to look for "first good issues"? Is everyone welcome? What are the prerequisites?...
#252
February 2 · 48 min
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 who is a Lead Product Engineer in SRE at Dynatrace. Tune in and learn how their team plans ahead for expected...
#251
January 19 · 54 min
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 this episode. In his blog post series 31 Days of Vibe Coding, Jeff Blankenburg walks us through all the lessons...
#250
January 5 · 53 min
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 podcast with William Louth. William, who can't seem to escape the observability space even though he keeps...
#249
Dec 22, 2025 · 42 min
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 Ride Share Platform for RoboTaxis at Cloud Native Days Austria! "Commit to one tool and go deep. Don't get...
#248
Dec 8, 2025 · 54 min
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 started with "lets see what happens when we unplug that server" to "lets simulate network latency issues" or "lets...

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