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Sorting Through The Noise with Brandon Swalve

thoughtbot — Oct 1, 2026 — interview

Why watch

Chad Pytel interviews Brandon Swalve, CEO of AppSignal, about the application performance monitoring market and his leadership journey over the past 18 months. The discussion covers the tension between feature-rich versus simple product approaches, industry shifts, and lessons learned running an APM company. Ideal for developers interested in the business side of dev tools and Ruby on Rails professionals.