The New Stack Podcast

PagerDuty’s CTO Alex Solomon On Building Microservices At Scale

Episode Summary

Deploying microservices on cloud as well as on-premise environments can offer enormous boosts in computing and agility. But once rolled out, the ability to effectively manage hundreds or even thousands of microservices that run in highly distributed environments becomes critical in order to maintain these ambitious deployments. Alex Solomon,  CTO and co-founder at digital operations management PagerDuty, should know — Solomon started his career on the ground floor of cloud computing as a software engineer for Amazon.com over 10 years ago in 2006 and is now involved in the cutting edge of microservice deployments on the cloud. He described how cloud computing environments have evolved over the years and the current and emerging challenges associated with event triage, communication, collaboration and other concerns for this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief of The New Stack, during the recently held  PagerDuty Summit in San Francisco. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pa3hZ-f2is

Episode Notes

Deploying microservices on cloud as well as on-premise environments can offer enormous boosts in computing and agility. But once rolled out, the ability to effectively manage hundreds or even thousands of microservices that run in highly distributed environments becomes critical in order to maintain these ambitious deployments.

Alex Solomon,  CTO and co-founder at digital operations management PagerDuty, should know — Solomon started his career on the ground floor of cloud computing as a software engineer for Amazon.com over 10 years ago in 2006 and is now involved in the cutting edge of microservice deployments on the cloud. He described how cloud computing environments have evolved over the years and the current and emerging challenges associated with event triage, communication, collaboration and other concerns for this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief of The New Stack, during the recently held  PagerDuty Summit in San Francisco.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pa3hZ-f2is