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Why AI Needs Observability And What's Coming Next

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We talk with Todd Persen, CTO of Hydrolix, about the invisible infrastructure behind modern software, AI systems and the internet.

We break down what observability actually means, why startups should care about it earlier than they think, and how AI agents may soon rely on logs and telemetry to detect bugs, fix systems and monitor infrastructure in real time.

We also get into massive data scale, the future of bot traffic, agentic commerce, software architecture, and why the real challenge in technology is often not just code, but getting people to work well together.

  • Observability
  • AI
  • Data

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Todd Persen

CTO, Hydrolix

Few people have shaped modern data infrastructure this quietly. He co-founded Errplane, the company that created and open-sourced InfluxDB, then co-founded Era Software and sold it to ServiceNow, where he led log management product. Now CTO at Hydrolix and a Forbes Technology Council member, he's building the streaming data lake behind petabyte-scale observability — and making the case that AI agents will live or die on logs and telemetry.

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