Speaker: Michael Hausenblas

(He / him / his)

Solution Engineering Lead @AWS

Michael is a Solution Engineering Lead in the AWS open source observability service team. He covers Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry upstream and in managed services. Before Amazon, Michael worked at Red Hat, Mesosphere (now D2iQ), MapR (now part of HPE), and prior to that ten years in applied research.

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Could Observability-Driven Development Be the Next Leap?

Twenty years ago Kent Beck coined the term “test-driven development”: write tests first, develop the code later. Today, even if not practising true TDD, the idea of writing code without tests is an immediate warning sign to any developer. Yet, most teams still continue shipping code without adequate instrumentation to observe real system behaviour in production. Is it time we move to observability-driven development: “instrument first, develop later”?

Date

Tuesday Apr 5 / 04:10PM BST (50 minutes)

Location

Whittle, 3rd flr.

Track

Debug, Analyze & Optimise... in Production!

Topics

Observability

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Profiles, the Missing Pillar: Continuous Profiling in Practice

With Continuous Profiling (CP) you capture resource usage (such as CPU, memory, I/O, etc.) over time, enabling you to pinpoint the (source) code that is slow or causes an issue. In recent times, CP has become mainstream and a number of open source projects such as Parca, Pyroscope, or CNCF Pixie are now available to benefit from CP in your own environment. We will have a look at the origins and the underlying motivation of CP and discuss cost and benefits of using CP in production. Finally, we will make the case that profiles are, in addition to logs, metrics, and traces, the missing pillar of observability.

Date

Tuesday Apr 5 / 11:50AM BST (50 minutes)

Location

Fleming, 3rd flr.

Track

Debug, Analyze & Optimise... in Production!

Topics

Observability

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