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Code RED

Hosted by Dash0 · technology · EN · 49 episodes

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How can you avoid your next outage? And what's next for observability? Code RED is a podcast for developers, site reliability engineers, CTOs and anyone who's excited about the future of software management and observability.Code...because we're talking about code! And RED for Requests, Errors, and Duration: the core metrics of observability.Hosted by Mirko Novakovic, CEO of Dash0 and co-founder and former CEO of Instana, you'll hear from leaders around our industry about what they're building, what's next in observability, and what you can do today to avoid your next code red moment.

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What is Code RED about?

How can you avoid your next outage? And what's next for observability? Code RED is a podcast for developers, site reliability engineers, CTOs and anyone who's excited about the future of software management and observability. Code...because we're talking about code! And RED for Requests, Errors, and Duration: the core metrics of observability.

Who hosts Code RED?

Code RED is hosted by Dash0. The show has published 49 episodes to date.

What has Code RED covered recently?

Recent episodes include "#49, The Single Pane of Glass Is a Myth: AI, Telemetry and the Future of Observability with Clint Sharp" (3 September 2026, 38 minutes), "#48, Why We Acquired Polar Signals with CEO Frederic Branczyk" (18 August 2026, 33 minutes), and "#47, Platform Engineering Was Never Just About Kubernetes with Rachael Wonnacott" (30 July 2026, 40 minutes).

How often does Code RED publish?

Code RED publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 49 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Code RED?

Booking probability for Code RED is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Code RED requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Code RED's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Code RED?

The strongest fits for Code RED are IT Services & Software Development. Code RED has a technology audience.

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Dash0 hosts Code RED, a technology show with 49 episodes published.

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  • Code RED

    #49 – The Single Pane of Glass Is a Myth: AI, Telemetry and the Future of Observability with Clint Sharp

    Sep 3, 202638 min

    Cribl co-founder and CEO Clint Sharp joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic for a wide-ranging conversation about where observability goes next. Clint explains why he thinks the future is flexible data layers rather than...

  • Code RED

    #48 – Why We Acquired Polar Signals with CEO Frederic Branczyk

    Aug 18, 202633 min

    Dash0 is acquiring Polar Signals. In this special behind-the-scenes episode, Polar Signals founder and CEO Frederic Branczyk joins Mirko Novakovic to share how a chance dinner in Berlin turned into a plan to join...

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    #47 – Platform Engineering Was Never Just About Kubernetes with Rachael Wonnacott

    Jul 30, 202640 min

    Platform engineering leader Rachael Wonnacott joins Code RED co-host Kasper Borg Nissen to explain why great platforms are defined by the experience they create for developers. Drawing on years of building internal...

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    #46 – Beyond Observability: Introducing Darkplane and the Future of AI-Native Software Delivery with Evgeni Wachnowezki

    Jul 13, 202635 min

    In this special launch episode, Dash0 Director of Product Evgeni Wachnowezki joins Mirko Novakovic to introduce Beyond Observability, Dash0’s vision for closing the loop from AI-generated code to production. They...

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    #45 – The Cloud Native Pulse: AI Agents, Platform Engineering, and the Future of Kubernetes with Abdel Sghiouar

    Jun 25, 202638 min

    Abdel Sghiouar, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Google and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-chair, joins Kasper Borg Nissen to discuss what’s changing across the cloud-native ecosystem. They explore why AI and agentic...

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    #44 – Tracing at Planet Scale: How Zalando Monitors 60 Million Spans Per Second with Heinrich Hartmann

    May 21, 202636 min

    Heinrich Hartmann joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to share how Zalando runs their observability at an extraordinary scale. Heinrich explains why Zalando standardized on OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry across 3,500...

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    #43 – Observability at the Proxy Level: How Linkerd Brings Visibility to Services, Identity, and AI Agents with William Morgan

    Apr 30, 202637 min

    Buoyant CEO and creator of Linkerd William Morgan joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to explore what happens when you instrument traffic at the service mesh layer. Drawing on his experience at Twitter, William explains how...

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    #42 – Killing Observability Noise: How Grepr Reduces Data by Up to 90% and Rebuilds the Pipeline with Jad Naous

    Apr 16, 202635 min

    Jad Naous, founder and CEO of Grepr, joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to tackle one of observability’s biggest problems: too much data and not enough signal. Drawing on his experience at AppDynamics and Apache Druid, Jad...

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    #41 – Platform as a Product: Why Internal Platforms Fail (and How to Fix Them) with Abby Bangser

    Apr 2, 202642 min

    Abby Bangser, founding principal engineer at Syntasso and co-author of “Platform as a Product,” joins Kasper Borg Nissen to unpack why most internal platforms struggle, and what it means to treat them like products...

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    #40 – Breaking the Observability Model: Pricing, AI SRE, and a Developer-First Mindset with Juraj Masar

    Mar 19, 202636 min

    Better Stack co-founder and CEO Juraj Masar joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to challenge the fundamentals of modern observability, from cloud lock-in and pricing models to how platforms should be built in the age of AI...

  • Code RED

    #39 – Beyond On-Call: How incident.io Built Multiplayer Incident Response with Stephen Whitworth

    Mar 5, 202642 min

    incident.io co-founder and CEO Stephen Whitworth joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to explain why paging someone is only the start of an incident, not a holistic solution. They break down how incident.io supports the full...

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    #38 – Beyond Kubernetes: Platform Engineering, Developer Experience and GenAI with Mauricio Salatino

    Feb 19, 202637 min

    Mauricio Salatino, open source and ecosystem engineer at Diagrid and author of Platform Engineering on Kubernetes, joins guest host Kasper Borg Nissen to break down why Kubernetes is a foundation, not just a standalone...

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    #37 – Prevention Over Alerts: How Ottermon AI Reimagines Observability with Checo

    Feb 5, 202640 min

    Checo, CEO and founder of Ottermon AI, joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to argue that modern observability is rife with noise, reactivity and human bottlenecks. Drawing on years of frontline SRE and product experience...

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    #36 – OpenTelemetry in Practice: How to Contribute, Grow, and Build Community with Marylia Gutierrez

    Jan 22, 202635 min

    Marylia Gutierrez, principal software engineer at Grafana Labs and an OpenTelemetry maintainer, joins Code RED guest host Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0’s principal developer relations engineer, for a deep dive into how...

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    #35 – Preventing the Next Outage: How NOFire Uses Causal and Agentic AI to Shift Reliability Left with Spiros Economakis

    Jan 8, 202638 min

    NOFire AI founder and CEO Spiros Economakis joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to discuss why traditional observability and post-incident RCA are no longer enough in an AI-accelerated engineering world. Drawing from real...

  • Code RED

    #34 – Rethinking Observability: eBPF, Bring Your Own Cloud, and the Future of the Monitoring Market with Shahar Azulay

    Dec 18, 202538 min

    Groundcover CEO Shahar Azulay joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic for a candid conversation on why modern observability needs a fundamental reset. They dive into the real-world challenges of eBPF-based instrumentation...

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    #33 – Inside the AI SRE Boom: Anish Agarwal on Traversal, Finding Root Causes, and What’s Next for Observability

    Oct 9, 202542 min

    Traversal CEO and co-founder Anish Agarwal joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic to unpack why AI-powered SRE agents are emerging as the next big shift in incident response. A former MIT researcher and now Columbia professor...

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    #32 – Data Observability at the Source: Ido Bronstein on Upriver, Bad Data, and How To Monitor A Future Full of AI Systems

    Aug 28, 202532 min

    Upriver co-founder and CEO Ido Bronstein joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic for a deep dive into the hidden risks of bad data and why “shift-left” observability is becoming essential. Ido shares why catching data issues at...

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    #31 - Code RED LIVE: Beyond Hype - The Real Impact of AI on Observability

    Aug 15, 202550 min

    We’re taking the Code RED podcast public! Join Dash0 CEO Mirko Novakovic, CTO Ben Blackmore, and Principal AI Engineer Lariel Fernandes for a no-fluff look at AI in observability.We’ll dig into: ⃗⃗⃗→ What agentic...

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    #30 – Behind the Dashboards: Chen Harel on OverOps, Coralogix, and Competing with the Observability Giants

    Aug 7, 202537 min

    Former Coralogix VP of Products and OverOps co-founder Chen Harel joins Dash0’s Mirko Novakovic for a candid look at the observability industry — past, present and future. They unpack the early days of production...

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