Developer experience, with Jean Yang (Akita) - S02E11

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In this episode we speak with Jean Yang, CEO of Akita Software, an API observability startup, which she founded after leaving her role in academia as a computer science professor. We discussed the software heterogeneity problem, why it isn't better to rewrite in rust and how the language wars have actually been won. We also explore how the big fight today is about infrastructure and why microservices are the solution to the ever-growing complexity of software.

About Jean Yang

Jean Yang is the founder and CEO of Akita Software, a developer tools company that is bringing structure to observability. Previously, Jean was a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Jean has a PhD from MIT, holds software tools patents from work at Microsoft Research and Facebook, and was selected as one of the MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2016.

Other things mentioned:

• Zenoss
• Taming Go’s Memory Usage, or How We Avoided Rewriting Our Client in Rust
• Splunk
• Datadog
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• The Everything store
• Zapier
• Clay
• Zoom Bachelor - https://www.zoombachelor.com/
• Zoom bachelorette
• Vim
• #PLTalk

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Recorded: 2021-11-19