Build & maintain complex distributed systems
October 1–2, 2017: Training
October 2–4, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Mark McBride

Mark McBride
CEO, Turbine Labs

Website | @mccv

Mark McBride is founder and CEO of Turbine Labs, building products that help engineers ship features more quickly and safely. Previously, Mark was services engineer lead at Nest Labs and Google, where he was responsible for the development of Nest’s server infrastructure that makes it possible for Nest customers to connect with their homes from wherever they are, and as an early developer on Twitter’s streaming API, delivering thousands of messages per second in real time to millions of users. During his time at Twitter, Mark managed developer productivity and led the web delivery, developer tools, and infrastructure test teams; he also worked with a variety of deploy pipelines and led development of some of Twitter’s early service migrations, which grew into a suite of tools used to migrate of millions of requests per second from legacy services to modern replacements.

Sessions

1:30pm–2:10pm Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Customer-centric observability
Monitoring, Tracing and Metrics
 Location: Beekman
Mark McBride (Turbine Labs)
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With the recent flourishing of observability systems, there's no shortage of things to monitor. Sadly, humans have limited capacity to process them all. Mark McBride outlines three key metrics—request rate, success rate, and the latency histogram—that provide a high-level abstraction of the customer experience. If these three metrics are good, your system is healthy from a customer perspective. Read more.