{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Smooth Scaling: System Design for High Traffic","title":"Observability as a Product: Building Platforms Engineers Actually Use with Iris Dyrmishi","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2000,"description":"In this episode, José Quaresma speaks with Iris Dyrmishi, Senior Observability Engineer at Miro, about building an observability platform that hundreds of engineers actually trust and use. Iris explains how her team treats observability as an internal product, walks through Miro's tracing migration from Jaeger and Zipkin to OpenTelemetry with zero disruption, and shares how teams now use traces proactively to find bottlenecks before they become outages. The conversation also covers the honest downsides — alert noise, dashboard sprawl, and the cost of observability — including a recent example using eBPF and Grafana Beyla to uncover hidden networking expenses that transformed Miro's cloud bill.Episode page---Iris Dyrmishi is a Senior Observability Engineer at Miro, where she builds and maintains the company's observability platform. She started as a backend engineer before moving into SRE roles at Worten Portugal and Farfetch, where she developed her specialty in tracing and drove OpenTelemetry migrations across large engineering organisations without disrupting existing workflows. A CNCF Ambassador, co-organiser of Kubernetes Community Days Porto, and active voice in the observability community, she writes extensively about practical adoption challenges and has spoken at KubeCon EU and on the o11ycast podcast. Her guiding philosophy: observability is a team sport.This podcast is hosted by José Quaresma, researched by Joseph Thwaites and produced by Perseu Mandillo. © Queue-it, 2026","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/NUjWPZClJT8sBh8TJHB749aD71YNKszNFP0UX56QWiY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hY2Jj/MTdjYjIxN2VmOThi/N2NiNmM5NmI4OWEy/ZGFiNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}