Why AI Needs Observability And What's Coming Next
Todd Persen on the invisible infrastructure behind modern software, AI systems and the internet.
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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.
Episode with Todd Persen