Many observability tools fail to provide us with the relevant insights for understanding hardware health and utilization. Whether due to incomplete instrumentation of key components or resolution that’s too coarse to capture brief or intermittent disturbances, we’re often left with gaps in our understanding and questions left unanswered. In this talk, we’ll explore techniques and technologies for getting a more detailed and comprehensive understanding of hardware health and utilization. With more comprehensive hardware telemetry we can pinpoint issues or exonerate components. We can finally answer the questions we have and unlock better performance.
Speaker
![](https://qconsf.com/sites/qcon_sf/files/styles/medium/public/default_images/default-user-image.jpg?itok=eiCTE2YD)
Brian Martin
Co-founder and Software Engineer @IOP Systems, Focused on High-Performance Software and Systems, Previously @Twitter
Brian is a software engineer who focuses on performance optimization and distributed systems. He worked at Twitter for 8 years, initially with the Cache Team and later as a member of the newly created Performance Team. After November 2022, Brian joined his teammates from Twitter as a co-founder of IOP Systems and continues to work on improving software and platform performance, efficiency, and reliability.