Monitoring, Observability, and Performance sessions

Track host

Greg Poirier (Sensu, Inc.) is the SVP of Engineering, where he leads the team building a scalable monitoring product for modern infrastructure. Previously, he was a systems engineer at Stripe, Oracle, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Earthlink. He has a background in monitoring, systems, and infosec and holds a BS in Computer Science from Auburn University.

9:00am–12:30pm Monday, October 1, 2018

Tracing polyglot systems: An OpenTracing tutorial

Location: Sutton South/Regent Parlor Level: Intermediate

Secondary topics:  Systems Monitoring & Orchestration

Yuri Shkuro (Uber Technologies), Prithvi Raj (Uber), Won Jun Jang (Uber)

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(5.00, 2 ratings)

Priyanka Sharma and Yuri Shkuro demonstrate how distributed tracing works and how to employ it in the development and operations of your applications in the programming language of your choice: Java, Go, Python, Node.js, C#, or C++. Read more.

11:35am–12:15pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Networks, echolocation, and fish GIFs

Location: Beekman/Sutton North Level: Beginner

Victoria Nguyen (Fastly)

Victoria Nguyen explains how Fastly overhauled the monitoring and data collection of its globally distributed network without its caches noticing. Read more.

1:30pm–2:10pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018

SLO burn

Location: Beekman/Sutton North Level: Intermediate

Secondary topics:  Systems Monitoring & Orchestration

Jamie Wilkinson (Google)

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(3.00, 1 rating)

Jamie Wilkinson offers a brief overview of SLOs, shares a practical guide to implementing sustainable SLO-based alerting for systems of any size, and outlines the tooling required to supplement the system in the absence of cause-based alerting. Read more.

2:25pm–3:05pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Using distributed trace data to solve performance and operational challenges

Location: Beekman/Sutton North Level: Intermediate

Secondary topics:  Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems

Naoman Abbas (Pinterest)

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(5.00, 1 rating)

Naoman Abbas offers an overview of tools Pinterest built to process trace data and the use cases they’ve enabled and shares some real-world examples. Join in to learn how to apply these techniques to your own challenges. Read more.

3:50pm–4:30pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018

How to break up with your vendor

Location: Beekman/Sutton North Level: Beginner

Secondary topics:  Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems

Amy Nguyen (Stripe), Cory Watson (Stripe)

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(3.00, 1 rating)

You're unsatisfied with one of your monitoring providers. You've considered finding a new solution, but the thought of migrating your data off their platform sounds extremely painful. Amy Nguyen and Cory Watson explain how to make a deadline for an infrastructure-critical software migration while ensuring that everyone's requirements are met and no data has been lost. Read more.

4:45pm–5:25pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018

From silos to a single pane of glass at USA TODAY NETWORK

Location: Beekman/Sutton North Level: Intermediate

Secondary topics:  Systems Monitoring & Orchestration

Bridget Lane (Gannett | USA Today), Kris Vincent (Gannett | USA Today)

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(3.50, 4 ratings)

Three years ago, technical teams at USA TODAY NETWORK were completely siloed, making improvements and troubleshooting difficult and often blind to the rest of the technical organization. Bridget Lane and Kris Vincent explain how drastically the teams' tool belts, thought processes, and goals have changed as the company moved from silos to a single pane of glass. Read more.

4:45pm–5:25pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Debugging microservices apps via a sevice mesh, OpenTracing, and Squash

Location: Sutton South/Regent Parlor Level: Intermediate

Secondary topics:  Systems Monitoring & Orchestration

Idit Levine (solo.io)

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(5.00, 1 rating)

Idit Levine demonstrates common debugging techniques and offers an overview of Squash, a new tool and methodology that brings the power of modern popular debuggers to developers of microservices apps that run on container orchestration platforms. Read more.

2:25pm–3:05pm Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Revisiting HTTP/2

Location: Murray Hill Level: Intermediate

Hooman Beheshti (Fastly)

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(4.50, 2 ratings)

Now that adoption is ramped up and HTTP/2 is being regularly used on the internet, it's a good time to revisit the protocol and its deployment. Hooman Beheshti reviews protocol basics and digs into core features such as interaction with TCP, server push, priorities and dependencies, and HPACK. Read more.