Björn Rabenstein
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where they keep going back
- DevOpsCon2 editions2019–2019
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- Alice Merrickonce
- Elena Grahovaconce
- Julius Volzonce
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who talks about the same things
- Bryan Boreham41 talks
- Frederic Branczyk32 talks
- Julius Volz12 talks
- Lili Cosic7 talks
- Richard Hartmann79 talks
- Tom Wilkie22 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Eight definitions of “observability” vs. “monitoring” – and why none of them work | PromCon EU 2025 | 2025-10-21 |
Eight proposed distinctions get evaluated with a simple CUP rating (correctness, usefulness, popularity) and none pass without flaws: the control theory… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Would you like your rate smoothed or anchored? | PromCon EU 2025 | 2025-10-21 |
Prometheus adds two new experimental rate functions: anchored and smooth. Anchored computes integer deltas using the last sample before and at the range so it… | ||
| How to Use Prometheus's Native Histograms | SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2023-10-10 |
Prometheus adds a new sample type: timestamped histograms stored as one series with dynamic exponential buckets that disappear when empty, enabling affordable… | ||
| How to Avoid Breaking Changes in your Go Modules | GopherCon Europe 2023 | 2023-06-26 |
Prometheus is used as a concrete example (35,000 imports) and a go.mod audit finds 181 dependencies with many still at 0.x while only ~11% are v2+, exposing… | ||
| GoTime Podcast Live | GopherCon Europe 2023 | 2023-06-26 |
Live podcast runs a survey game called Gophers Say where an audience of Go devs names top answers: the most-used keyword is func (63 votes) with if (29) and… | ||
| Prometheus Native Histograms in Production | Observability Day Europe 2023 | 2023-04-18 |
Native Prometheus histograms run behind a feature flag and keep one series per histogram instead of many bucket series, cutting series from ~16,000 to 964 in… | ||
| Alerting and Anomaly Detection – Best Friends Forever? | PrometheusDay Europe 2022 | 2022-05-17 |
Argument: anomaly detection rarely works as primary pager logic because outages often look normal and most anomalies are harmless (World Cup traffic drops, 70%… | ||
| Prometheus Intro and Deep Dive | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 | 2022-05-16 |
Prometheus overview plus recent changes: claims of handling 10 million active time series and ~1 million samples/sec with about 1–2 bytes per sample… | ||
| A New Kid in Histogram Town | PromCon Online 2021 | 2021-05-03 |
Design doc "Sparse high-resolution histograms for Prometheus" is implemented as a branched prototype that encodes sparse high-resolution histograms in… | ||
| How to Include Latency in SLO-based Alerting | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 | 2019-11-18 |
Concrete recipe: convert latency violations into errors by counting requests above a threshold (e.g., 99.9% < 1s for writes, 99.95% < 2.5s for reads) using… | ||
| SRE in the Third Age | SREcon19 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2019-10-02 |
Frame: SRE evolves from a Google-only practice to a public discipline and now to a diffuse skill set where most engineers must carry SRE mindset. Small… | ||
| Lock-free Observations for Prometheus Histograms | GopherCon UK 2019 | 2019-08-21 |
Shows how Prometheus histograms get near lock-free updates by using the atomic package to write into a hot buffer while reads snapshot a cold buffer, switching… | ||
| Prometheus – what’s new and what’s next? | DevOpsCon Spring 2019 | 2019-06-11 |
Prometheus reports recent, concrete work: a fixed six‑week release cadence is now active; alerting remembers ongoing persistent alert state across restarts… | ||
| Applied Alerting Philosophy | DevOps Fest 2019 | 2019-04-06 |
Describes applying Rob Ewaschuk’s symptom‑based alerting with concrete tooling: metric instrumentation, HAProxy exporter, Prometheus alertmanager rules that… | ||
| Prometheus – what’s new and what’s next? | DevOps Conference Spring 2019 | 2019-03-25 |
Prometheus now ships a six-week release cadence, persists alert “for” state across restarts so long running alerts fire after a reboot, and adds retention by… | ||
| Profiling is for Dev, Monitoring is for Ops – no more! | DevOps Conference Spring 2019 | 2019-03-25 |
Claims that Prometheus-style whitebox monitoring and always-on Go profiling let developers instrument production binaries, attach pprof endpoints via an… | ||
| Story of Seeking Sustainable SRE | SREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2018-08-29 |
SoundCloud has ~100 million users but only 100 engineers, so microservices outnumber people and Google-style SRE fails when copied directly. The company builds… | ||
| Configuring Prometheus for High Performance | CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 | 2017-03-29 |
Prometheus tuning centers on local-storage flags: set memory chunk limits so chunks in RAM don’t exceed about one third of host RAM (practical rule divide RAM… | ||
| Grand Treatise of Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration | Golang UK 2016 | 2016-08-18 |
Practical recipe for Prometheus instrumentation in Go: use RED (request error duration) with histogram buckets and counters plus label vectors to get QPS… | ||
| Alerting for Distributed Systems—A Tale of Symptoms and Causes, Signals and Noise | SREcon16 Europe | 2016-07-11 |
Company runs ~100 engineers with a ~5 person production engineering team and replaces noisy host checks with symptom-based alerts so pages reflect user impact… | ||
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