Track Overview
Observability: Logging, Alerting and Tracing
Observability in modern large distributed computer systems
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Monitoring Cloud Native applications with Prometheus
Monitoring containerised applications creates a new set of challenges that traditional monitoring systems struggle with. In this talk, Aaron from Weaveworks will explore how we can use Prometheus, along with its integrations with Kubernetes and other open-source components, to observe services...
Aaron Kirkbride
Software Engineer @Weaveworks
Observability and Emerging Infrastructures
Metrics, dashboards, logs ... the basics of monitoring haven’t changed much in the past 20 years, even as systems have gotten astronomically more fluid, ephemeral and complex. Modern systems require a more exploratory, iterative approach to problem solving than dashboards afford, and...
Charity Majors
Co-Founder @Honeycombio, formerly DevOps @ParseIT/@Facebook
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...
Pierre Vincent
Head of SRE @weareglofox
The Present and Future of Serverless Observability
As engineers, we're empowered by advancements in cloud platforms to build ever more complex systems that can achieve amazing feats at a scale previously only possible for the elite few. The monitoring tools have evolved over the years to accommodate our growing needs with these increasingly...
Yan Cui
Senior Developer at Space Ape Games
Testing Observability
The days of trying to build systems that always work are gone. Fast, frequent releases and self-healing platforms can reduce, or even remove the risk of production incidents. So what does this mean for software testing? In this talk, Amy will look back on a long test career, and a recent Platform...
Amy Phillips
Engineering Manager @Moo
Observability Panel
Charity Majors
Co-Founder @Honeycombio, formerly DevOps @ParseIT/@Facebook
Pierre Vincent
Head of SRE @weareglofox
Yan Cui
Senior Developer at Space Ape Games
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Randy Shoup
VP Engineering @WeWork
Speakers from this track
Aaron Kirkbride
Software Engineer @Weaveworks
Aaron is an software engineer at Weaveworks. He enjoys working across the stack, from DevOps to UIs, to create products which help developers like himself deploy and monitor their applications running on Kubernetes. Prior to this, he’s worked at other London-based startups including YPlan and...
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Charity Majors
Co-Founder @Honeycombio, formerly DevOps @ParseIT/@Facebook
Charity has been on call since age 17, a terrifying thought. She has been every sort of systems engineer & manager at Facebook, Parse, Linden Lab etc, but somehow always ends up responsible for the databases. She likes free software, free speech and peaty single-malts.
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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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Yan Cui
Senior Developer at Space Ape Games
Yan is an experienced engineer who has worked with AWS for near 10 years. He has been an architect and lead developer with a variety of industries ranging from investment banks, e-commence to mobile gaming. In the last 2 years he has worked extensively with serverless technologies in production,...
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Amy Phillips
Engineering Manager @Moo
Amy Phillips is Engineering Manager for the Platform team at Moo. She enjoys helping teams to do awesome things. Previously Amy spent over 10 years as a software tester for a variety of companies including The Guardian and Yahoo! Starting out it was all about Master Test Plans and Requirements...
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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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Randy Shoup
VP Engineering @WeWork
Randy is a 25-year veteran of Silicon Valley, and has worked as a senior technology leader and executive at companies ranging from small startups, to mid-sized places, to eBay and Google. Randy is currently VP Engineering at WeWork in San Francisco. He is particularly passionate about the nexus...
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Track Host
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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