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The Joy of Building Enterprise Software with Ben Sigelman
The Joy of Building Enterprise Software with Ben Sigelman
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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Mar 25, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Ben Sigelman is the CEO and co-founder of LightStep, makers of tools that deliver observability at scale for modern applications. Prior to that, he served as a mentor and advisor for Code for America and an advisor for Librato, Inc. He also worked at Google as a senior staff software engineer for more than nine years where he co-created Dapper.
Join Corey and Ben as they discuss the journey that led Ben to co-founding LightStep, including what it was like to be “born” at Google and help build Dapper, what Ben believes the point of distributed tracing is, why Ben is not a fan of Facebook, what it was like building a social network for depressed introverts, why building enterprise software is more validating that building a social network, what it’s like being involved with the OpenTelemetry project, and more.
Join Corey and Ben as they discuss the journey that led Ben to co-founding LightStep, including what it was like to be “born” at Google and help build Dapper, what Ben believes the point of distributed tracing is, why Ben is not a fan of Facebook, what it was like building a social network for depressed introverts, why building enterprise software is more validating that building a social network, what it’s like being involved with the OpenTelemetry project, and more.
Released:
Mar 25, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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