SESSION + Live Q&A
How to Build Observable Distributed Systems
Being able to observe the state of a running application is key to understanding a system's behaviour and essential if you want to fix production problems quickly and efficiently. Like a lot of other things, this is harder to do in distributed systems than it is with a monolith. At Poppulo we've been running a distributed system of hundreds of microservices in production for more than 4 years and we got to understand how critical this visibility is. If you want to succeed with operating a distributed system, observability should be an integral part of system design. I'll cover key techniques to build a clearer picture of distributed applications in production, including details on useful health checks, best practices for instrumentation with metrics, logging and tracing.
Speaker
Pierre Vincent
Head of SRE @weareglofox
Originally from a software development background, the rise of DevOps drove Pierre Vincent to become more involved in how systems actually run in the real world and how he could make a difference helping others care about the applications they release to production.Pierre is currently Head of SRE...
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Location
Churchill, G flr.
Track
Observability: Logging, Alerting and Tracing
Topics
ObservabilityMicroservicesDistributed SystemsShare
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