CEO lessons from 10 years of observability & platform engineering | Weave Intelligence

Observability has changed dramatically over the past decade - but many of the fundamental problems remain.

In this episode of Weave, we sit down with Mirko Novakovic, founder of Instana (acquired by IBM) and now founder of Dash0, to talk about what the observability industry learned, and what it still hasn’t figured out.

Mirko reflects on building Instana during the early days of Kubernetes and microservices, and how the rise of platform engineering has changed what teams actually need from observability tools today. From the explosion of telemetry data to the challenges of debugging modern distributed systems, the conversation explores why the old models of monitoring no longer work - and what the next generation of observability platforms must look like.

We also dig into the deeper connection between observability and platform engineering, and why modern platforms must provide developers with better context, better signals, and better tooling to understand complex systems.

In this episode:

- How the observability landscape changed from 2015 → today
- Lessons from building Instana and selling to IBM
- Why Kubernetes reshaped monitoring and observability
- The real challenges developers face debugging distributed systems
- Why traditional monitoring tools struggle with modern platforms
- What Mirko is building with Dash0
- The evolving relationship between observability and platform engineering

💬 “Kubernetes changed everything, and observability had to change with it.”

If you're working on platform engineering, observability, or modern infrastructure, this conversation offers valuable insights from someone who helped define the space.

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