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Landing Observability in the Enterprise

John describes the key challenges teams need to overcome, and provides both specific and actionable advice to overcome those challenges.

ObservabilityenterpriseJohn FeminellaObservability

Stepping Our Way Into Resilient Services

Is it possible to discover unknown-unknowns proactively with Chaos Engineering? Where exactly is the intersection between intentionally breaking production services

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilitychaos engineeringGremlinJason Yeeresilienceresilience engineeringunknown-unknowns

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

Habits of Highly-Performing Teams

There is a yawning gap opening up between the best and the rest—the elite top few percent of engineering teams

Engineering Best Practicesfeedback loopshigh-performingobservability driven developmentODDProductionresiliencesocio-technicalsoftware ownershipteamsunknown-unknowns

Identifying Hidden Dependencies

Learn how Honeycomb improved the reliability of our Zookeeper, Kafka, and stateful storage systems through terminating nodes on purpose.

AWSEngineering Best Practiceschaos engineeringcontinuous deliverydependenciesdeploykafkaProductionreliabilityService Level ObjectivesSLOZookeeper