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aliases: ["Podcast recording — 2024-04-25"]
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Date: "2024-04-25"
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Related to: ["[[person-nina-petersen]]"]
Tags: ["Work", "Podcast"]
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# Podcast recording — 2024-04-25
Recorded episode with Nina Petersen. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: observability-driven development and how modern teams should think about instrumenting code from day one rather than bolting on monitoring after the fact
- Nina walked through a real incident postmortem from her time at a large-scale e-commerce platform, showing how proper distributed tracing would have reduced their mean time to resolution from 4 hours to under 20 minutes
- Her background as both an SRE lead and an open-source contributor to OpenTelemetry gave her deep technical credibility — she could speak to both the theory and the implementation details
- Good pacing throughout the episode; Nina is concise and structured in her answers, which will make editing straightforward
- Standout insight: "If your first instinct during an incident is to SSH into a box and tail a log file, your observability stack has failed you"
- Audio quality was very good; minor background noise from construction near Nina's office in the first 5 minutes, but it cleared up

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Nina with the recording link
- [ ] Draft show notes and include links to the OpenTelemetry resources she mentioned
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]] — note the minor background noise at the start
