Track Overview
Observability Done Right: Automating Insight & Software Telemetry
Tools, practices, and methods to know what your system is doing
From this track
Avoiding Alerts Overload From Microservices
Microservices can be a great way to work: the services are simple, you can use the right technology for the job, and deployments become smaller and less risky. Unfortunately, other things become more complex. You probably took some time to design a deployment pipeline and set up self-service...
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Do You Really Know Your Response Times?
With the recent surge in highly available microsevervices with high incoming traffic, it is becoming more and more important to know how your service is performing right now and to be able to diagnose issues in production quickly. It took a while for us to understand how to produce meaningful...
Daniel Rolls
Collecting and Interpreting Large-Scale Data Collected @SkyUK
Monitoring Serverless Architectures
Serverless architectures are attracting more and more interest from the IT professionals and companies hoping to lower the costs of creating and operating distributed systems without constant worrying about availability, scalability and capacity management. Despite all the attractive properties...
Rafal Gancarz
Lead Consultant @OpenCredo
After Acceptance: Reasoning About System Outputs
Modern software development allows us to prove that new work is functionally complete. We write a set of executable specifications. We automatically execute them in the form of acceptance tests as part of our continuous delivery pipeline. When all the tests pass, we are done! This approach is...
Dr. Stefanos Zachariadis
Senior Software Engineer
Observability, Event Sourcing and State Machines
What is a way to have complete transparency of the state of a service? Ideally we would record everything - the inputs, outputs and timings - in order to capture highly reproducible and transparent state changes. However, is it possible to record every event or message in and out of a service...
Peter Lawrey
CEO @Chronicle_SW
Observability Open Space
Speakers from this track
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Sarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement, observability and devops. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams.Sarah spent...
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Daniel Rolls
Collecting and Interpreting Large-Scale Data Collected @SkyUK
Daniel Rolls is a senior developer at Sky where he is responsible for building web services for over the top delivery of video streams. Prior to joining Sky Daniel did a PhD in Computer Science and worked for various organisations including Xerox and The University of Hertfordshire. Daniel...
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Rafal Gancarz
Lead Consultant @OpenCredo
Rafal is a Lead Consultant for OpenCredo, a London-based consultancy specialising in helping clients build and deploy emerging technologies to deliver business value. He is an experienced technologist with expertise in architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems. Rafal is also an...
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Dr. Stefanos Zachariadis
Senior Software Engineer
Stefanos loves to code and has done so professionally for over 12 years. His career has taken various twists and turns: From academia to writing satellite software for the European Space Agency; flight search software for a major airline; test automation for various banks and steam turbine design...
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Peter Lawrey
CEO @Chronicle_SW
Peter Lawrey has the most answers for concurrency and memory in stackoverflow.com, and the second-highest for Java.Peter is a Java Champion, the CEO of Chronicle Software and the architect of OpenHFT libraries downloaded from 15K different IP addresses each month.
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Track Host
Daniel Bryant
Director of DevRel @Ambassador Labs
Daniel Bryant works as the Director of DevRel at Ambassador Labs, and is the News Manager at InfoQ and Chair for QCon London. His current technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms and microservice implementations. Daniel is a leader within the London...
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