Torkel Ödegaard is the creator and project lead of Grafana, and co-founder of Grafana Labs. Learn how Torkel went from modding video games to building a data visualization platform, and co-founding a company that is now offering a complete monitoring service built on Prometheus.
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Chatter of the week

On The Basis Of Sex
RBG
Star Trek: Picard

News of the week

CVE-2020-14386
gVisor: Containing a real vulnerability by Fabricio Voznika
Announcing IBM Cloud Code Engine
Docker Enterprise Container Cloud
Mirantis rethinks Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes by
Beth Pariseau
Episode 110, with Adrian Ionel
KubeEdge approved as CNCF incubating project
kubeapply and Kubernetes configuration at Segment
Introducing Grafana Metrics Enterprise
Pure Storage to acquire Portworx

Portworx acquired by Pure Storage


Ionir exits stealth and promises instant data mobility
NetApp Cloud Volumes Service powered by GKE
AKS adds CSI driver for Files and Disks
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.5
VMware Tanzu:

Announcing vSphere with Tanzu
One of four new editions
vSAN Data Persistence Platform
Mission Control expands policy management capabilities


SentinelOne announce automated applicaiton control for containers
16 CNCF interns graduate from Google Summer of Code

Building operators for cluster add-ons by Somtochi Onyekwere


CFPs open for ServiceMeshCon and Cloud Native Security Day North America
A Year of Kubernetes at GitLab

Episode 89, with Marin Jankovski



Links from the interview

The 2001 dot-com crash
Rocket Arena mod for Quake 3
Extreme ironing
Tradera

IT contracting
The Mythical Man Month


Graphite
Kibana
Grafana

GitHub
The history of Grafana UX


Grafana Labs

Team


Kausal
Cortex
Loki
Crystal Reports
Interesting use cases:

Beehive monitor
Hospital queue visualisation
Monitoring Art plugin


A $50m Series B funding round
Grafana Metrics Enterprise
Recommended reading: Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Torkel Ödegaard on Twitter