Kafka on Nicole van der Hoeven

State of the Observability Databases (Grafana Office Hours #30)

Thu, 15 May 2025 18:22:26 +0100

In this Grafana Office Hours, we talk about the state of observability databases (Grafana Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope) and where they’re going. We talk about current and upcoming architectural changes in all four, how we’re making them more performant, how compatible they are with OpenTelemetry, and what we’re working on next for each database. In this conversation are Dee Kitchen (VP of Engineering for Databases) and Senior Developer Advocates Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven.

Getting started with xk6-browser (k6 Office Hours #63)

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:13:33 +0200

Marie Drake, the newest Developer Advocate to join the k6 team, shares her experience in getting started with xk6-browser: how to install it, issues she encountered, and the state of browser testing with k6 as she sees it.

Load Testing Apache Kafka using k6 (k6 Office Hours #62)

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:09:36 +0200

Senior Software Engineer Mostafa Moradian joins us to talk about load testing Apache Kafka using k6 and the extension he created, called xk6-kafka. He describes what Kafka is, the basics of Kafka, and why he thinks load testing it is important. Mostafa works on the backend team at k6/Grafana Labs.