Observability 2025: A Conversation with Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint Systems
In this episode, Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint Systems, shares insights on the future of observability, AI-driven automation, and Self-Healing IT (SHIT).
Key Takeaways:
🔹 The Birth of Observability: Mehdi’s DoubleClick outage fueled his passion for performance monitoring, leading to Catchpoint’s creation in 2008.
🔹 The Future: AI-Driven, Self-Healing IT (SHIT):
In 2025, IT leaders will wake up to reports of incidents detected, mitigated, and resolved overnight—without human intervention.
🔹 Automated Resilience & Multi-Cloud Strategies:
CDN Switching: Companies like LinkedIn & eBay already automate real-time CDN optimizations for seamless performance.
Cloud Failover: Businesses are leveraging multi-cloud strategies to dynamically reroute workloads, ensuring zero downtime.
🔹 Lessons in Leadership:
Hiring Right is key—bad hires cost time and resources.
Stoicism for CEOs: Focus on what you can control and stop stressing over what you can’t.
🔹 Embrace AI, Don’t Fear It: AI won’t replace humans. Ai is here to augment IT teams and accelerate mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).
Mehdi’s vision for Observability 2025? AI-powered SHIT (Self-Healing IT), AI-SHIT, where monitoring tools detect, diagnose, and fix issues mitigating user impact.
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