Cloud Talk

Rising to the Challenge: Success Stories of Senior Leaders at Rackspace

July 13th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  54 mins 26 secs

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Join host Jeff DeVerter in the inspiring "Cloud Talk" episode as he interviews senior leaders Josh Prewitt and Travis Runty from Rackspace. They share their incredible journeys, starting from entry-level positions and rising to influential leadership roles, offering insights into what they look for in new employees and valuable advice for the next generation of professionals. Discover how they overcame challenges, made themselves noticed, and succeeded without relying solely on formal education in the dynamic world of cloud technology.

Episode 126: Full-Stack Observability: Bringing Developers and the Business Together

November 29th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  30 mins 57 secs

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Join Joe Byrne, CTO of AppDynamics, as he and Jeff DeVerter discuss the impact of connecting business KPIs to the quality of the developer's code and the operations of the underlying systems.

Episode 122: If these apps could talk...

June 30th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  32 mins 5 secs

applications, apps, business context, cloud, data, devops, full stack observability, kpi, monitoring, multicloud, observability, security, visibility

...but of course, they can't. And since mere monitoring won't cut it in a cloud first world - the only place to turn is modern application observability. In this episode of Cloud Talk Live, we get to chat with Keith Llorens and Andrew Liu of AppDynamics where we will unpack what observability is and how will transform your approach to customer experience.

Episode 121: Correlating Application Performance and End-User Experience to Business KPI's

June 28th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  50 mins 55 secs

applications, apps, business context, cloud, data, devops, full stack observability, kpi, monitoring, multicloud, observability, security, visibility

How do you correlate application performance and end-user experience to business KPI's? You need a partner offering full stack observability to optimize performance, resource allocation and uptime. From infrastructure to network to end users, observability not only finds the problem but the specific line of code that needs attention.

Pick an application and get it monitored with AppDynamics for free here https://www.rackspace.com/lp/ctl-if-these-apps-could-talk