In this episode we explore how Dapr and KEDA—two CNCF graduated projects—are reshaping cloud-native application development and what that means for observability. From event-driven architectures to autoscaling and service runtime, we discuss how these building blocks fit into modern systems. We discuss major capabilities around resilience, scalability, observability and even agentic AI support.
Our guest for this episode is Yaron Schneider, co-creator of both Dapr and KEDA projects, and co-founder and CTO of Diagrid. He also brings years of leadership at Microsoft on scalable cloud architecture.
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Show Notes:
00:00 - episode intro
01:19 - guest intro and Dapr & KEDA intro
04.53 - why Microsoft created KEDA
14:43 - why Microsoft decided to open-source KEDA
16:58 - why Microsoft created Dapr
24:52 - observability in Dapr
33:38 - shifting from logs to traces
37:46 - building a startup around foundation-led open source
46:22 - agentic AI support in Dapr
49:11 - Dapr updates and roadmap
52:15 - KEDA updates and roadmap
53:50 - Dapr at KubeCon NA
55:08 - Jaeger celebrates 10th anniversary
56:13 - OpenTelemetry Collector user survey
56:58 - proposal for a new OTel SIG for resource metadata semantic conventions
1:00:00 - outro
Resources:
Dapr: https://dapr.io/
KEDA: https://keda.sh/
Dapr accepted to graduation, Dec 2024, my LI post: https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:share:7262354292794159105
Announcing Dapr AI Agents: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03/12/announcing-dapr-ai-agents/
Jaeger 10th anniversary: https://medium.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-at-10-forged-in-community-reborn-in-opentelemetry-621d4eabdeda
Jaeger v2 and alignment with OpenTelemetry: https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774
Proposal for a new OpenTelemetry SIG: Service and Deployment Semantic Conventions: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2837/
OTel Collector Follow-up Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbpqBcCVfmRj_Rk_Sd6zaBGpfzGSBvSZ6CdVn6PPBbbmPIOw/viewform
Socials:
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObserv
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openobservability/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks
Dotan Horovits
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Yaron Schneider
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaron-schneider-2130b7a3/
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