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The Future of Observability

In 2018, Peter Alvaro joined us at o11ycon to deliver a visionary and thought-provoking talk around the problems we had

ObservabilityObservabilityPeter AlvaroUC Santa Cruz

o11ycon Keynote

Nora Jones and Charity Majors share their experience leading major movements shaping the future of shipping software. Nora Jones is

Observabilitychaos engineeringJeliNora Jonessite reliability

Conditional Distributed Tracing

Distributed tracing is generally a binary affair—it's off or on. Either a trace is sampled or, according to a flag,

Distributed TracingObservabilitydistributed systemsdistributed tracingspan eventspanstraces

Driving Observability Adoption Forward as an Internal Champion… During a

Josh from Amperity covers how they planned, strategized, and organized their observability tooling evaluation. Josh also shares how the COVID-19

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityAmperityJosh Parsonspandemicremote

Killing Your Staging Environment

“But it worked in staging!” is the new “But it works in my machine!” Docker, Kubernetes, and friends have made

Engineering Best PracticescloudfareErwin van der KooghProductionstagingstaging environment

Modernizing Availability Thinking at Babylon

Babylon has a vision to bring affordable and accessible healthcare to the world. A key part of that vision is

ObservabilitySLOsBabylon HealthSLISLOTom Ford

OpenTelemetry, Not Just for Production Troubleshooting

In this talk, Michael will show you how to leverage OpenTelemetry to gather and analyze data from production and how

ObservabilityOpenTelemetryAspectoMichael HabermanmicroservicesOpenTelemetryOTelpre-production

Eyes Wide Open: o11y From Theory to Practice

Peter covers his team's journey, including how they did the early integration, included interactions with existing tooling that was available

InstrumentationObservabilityinstrumentationintegrationnetflixpeter royaltooling

Ep. #40, Player Experience with Nick Herring of CCP Games

In episode 40 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Nick Herring of CCP Games. They discuss the challenges faced

DebuggingEngineering Best PracticesObservabilityCCP Gamesdebugginggamergamingnick herring

Ep. #39, Sell The Sizzle with Jordan Simonovski of Atlassian

In episode 39 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jordan Simonovski of Atlassian. They explore the differences between tracing

Distributed TracingLogsObservabilityAtlassianJordan Simonovskiloggingreliabilitytracing

Observability Maturity Community Research Findings 2021

Our report takes a look at the observability landscape and how practices are evolving. Learn where your organization is on

Observability

Ep. #38, Infrastructure Changes with Andy Davies of Reaktor

In episode 38 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Andy Davies of Reaktor. Their conversation covers the importance of

InstrumentationLogsObservabilityAndy Daviesdatabase infrastructureinstrumentationReaktorstructured logs