In this Episode we chat with Julius Volz one of the co-founders of Prometheus. like the Titan who gave humans fire, i believe Prometheus was vital to wider adoption of Cloud Native tools such as Kubernetes to grow and prosper. Julius discusses his journey from google to sound cloud to starting Prometheus and beyond. We go in depth on Prometheus, starting PromCon, and his product PromLens. Promlens is a query editor, visualizer, and explainer for Prometheus's query language PromQL Julius is a titan of our community.
What is Prometheus?? Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community. It is now a standalone open source project and maintained independently of any company.
Timeline/Topic
00:00 - Opening
00:34 - Intro to Julius Volz
01:21 - The Fire Giver's journey / Google /Sound Cloud/the beginnings of Prometheus
26:10 - Scrapers and Exporters
33:17 - Naming Prometheus
35:06 - Prometheus' Amazing Adoption
41:12 - PromCon
45:01 - PromLabs and PromLens
49:40 - What does Julius do in his spare time?
52:04 - What work are you most proud of?
Episode Links
https://prometheus.io/
https://promcon.io/2021-online/
https://promlabs.com/
https://juliusv.com/
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