The Infoq Podcast

In this week's podcast, QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Tal Weiss, CEO of OverOps, recently re-branded from Takipi. The conversation covers how the OverOps product works, explores the difference between instrumentation and observability, discusses bytecode manipulation approaches and common errors in Java based applications. A keen blogger, Weiss has been designing scalable, real-time Java and C++ applications for the past 15 years. He was co-founder and CEO at VisualTao which was acquired by Autodesk in 2009, and also worked as a software architect at IAI Space Industries focusing on distributed, real-time satellite tracking and control systems. Why listen to this podcast: - OverOps uses a mixture of machine code instrumentation and static code analysis at deployment time to build up an index of the code - Observability is how you architect your code to be able to capture information from its outputs. Instrumentation is where you come in from the outside and use bytecode or machine code manipulation te