4–7 Nov 2019

Liz Fong-Jones
Site Reliability Engineer, Honeycomb

Liz Fong-Jones is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and site reliability engineer (SRE) with 15+ years of experience at Honeycomb. Previously, she was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife, metamours, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix, and in San Francisco and Seattle with her other partners. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights as a board member of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Sessions

9:00–12:30 Tuesday, 5 November 2019

Location: Hall A5

Observing and understanding distributed systems with OpenTelemetry

Monitoring, Observability, and Performance

Liz Fong-Jones (Honeycomb), Yoshi Yamaguchi (Google)

Average rating:

(3.50, 6 ratings)

Liz Fong-Jones and Yoshi Yamaguchi walk you through a microservice-based system with distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry. You'll progress from inspecting raw trace data to visualizing the distributed traces with open source engines such as Jaeger and Zipkin, and you'll export the instrumented data to SaaS products such as Honeycomb and Stackdriver. Read more.

11:35–12:15 Thursday, 7 November 2019

Location: Hall A4

Cultivating production excellence: Taming complex distributed systems

Production Engineering, SRE, and DevOps

Liz Fong-Jones (Honeycomb)

Average rating:

(4.00, 4 ratings)

Join Liz Fong-Jones to learn how taming the complex distributed systems you're responsible for requires changing not just the tools and technical approaches you use, it also requires changing who's involved in production, how they collaborate, and how you measure success. Read more.