Observability Practitioners Summit 2019
2019-11-18
San Diego, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome | 03m | |
Start time 9:00 a.m., with 30-minute breaks at 10:20 and 3:00 p.m. and lunch served at 12:20 in the back. Most sessions run 30 minutes, with three sponsored… | ||
| Observability for Deep Systems | Daniel Spoonhower | 09m |
Microservices create layered, interdependent architectures where responsibility outpaces control, producing "deep systems" that need new observability… | ||
| Tracing is for Everyone, Not Just Backend Engineers. (How Tracing Could Help Front-e... | Nina Stawski | 22m |
Claim: front-end code can emit real distributed traces and be correlated with backend traces using OpenTelemetry in the browser. Live demo wires a tracer, a… | ||
| Real-Time Application Maps for Proactive and Actionable Visibility | Aloke Guha | 26m |
Claims a working pipeline that builds real-time application maps by merging Kubernetes config, Prometheus metrics, cloud APIs, traces and network flows into a… | ||
| SlackTrace: A New Tracing Tool | Suman Karumuri | 34m |
SlackTrace introduces a minimal SpanEvent span format and a pipeline (Neuron → Kafka → adapters → Honeycomb + Presto) that stores full-fidelity spans and lets… | ||
| LeitMotif: An Abstraction for Debugging Distributed Applications | Mania Abdi | 26m |
Claims an actionable abstraction called workflow motifs that are mined from end-to-end traces to capture recurring processing patterns, their latency… | ||
| When Connections are Magic: Understanding Performance in Serverless | James Burns | 24m |
Built a Go cloud function to simulate object-store transforms and instrumented TCP/TLS/DNS timings with httptrace, then ports an AWS X‑Ray hook to OpenTracing… | ||
| A Picture is Worth 1,000 Traces | Steve Flanders, Yuri Shkuro | 32m |
Claims that aggregate distributed-trace analysis and targeted visual diffs find failures faster than single-trace hunting. Uses Jaeger with synthetic… | ||
| Testing in A Distributed Systems World | Fernando Mayo | 30m |
Argues that tracing’s context propagation becomes a testing primitive: attach an OpenTracing/OpenTelemetry baggage like tenancy=test to requests, route them… | ||
| Pythia: An Automated, Cross-layer Instrumentation Framework for Diagnosing Performanc... | Emre Ates | 24m |
Pythia is an automated cross‑layer instrumentation framework that explores which trace points to enable using distributed tracing plus statistical search… | ||
| Observability Where are We Headed? | Alois Reitbauer | 13m |
Argues that enterprises need both traditional monitoring and observability and shows a five-dimensional model (infrastructure, services, user/business… | ||
| New Relic Sponsored Session - Mike Panchenko, New Relic | Mike Panchenko | 10m |
Migration of the New Relic analytics database — a stateful system that handles around 1.3 billion events per minute (≈23M/sec) — moves to Kubernetes with a… | ||
| Reliable Observability at Scale: Error Budgets for 1,000+ | Fred Moyer | 30m |
Zendesk implements companywide error budgets for ~1,000 engineers with ~10 SREs, rolling out SLOs across teams in about four months. Implementation uses… | ||
| Closing | 28m | |
Panelists summarize tracing research, name X-Trace, Spectroscope and Dapper, and argue lack of real-world datasets blocks progress; they propose opentraces.org… | ||
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