Workshop: Observing and Understanding Distributed Systems With OpenTelemetry (Morning Session)
Modern systems architecture often splits functionality into microservices for adaptability and velocity. The challenge of managing infrastructure for microservices has led to the cloud native ecosystem, including Kubernetes, Envoy, gRPC, and other projects. Observability, including application performance management (APM), is an essential component of a cloud-native stack. Without observability, application developers and operators cannot understand the behavior of their applications and ensure the reliability of those applications.
OpenTelemetry (the successor to OpenCensus and OpenTracing) is a standardized library and specification that collects distributed traces and metrics from instrumented services. By instrumenting once with OpenTelemetry, developers and operators can understand how data and events flow through their applications through a variety of different visualization backends.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to instrument a distributed set of microservices for traceability using OpenTelemetry, and how to analyze your service’s traces using open source software backends like Jaeger/Zipkin. Finally, you’ll be able to leverage OpenTelemetry vendor-neutral flexibility to try out other tracing backends including the hosted SaaS products Stackdriver and Honeycomb, without recompiling. And you can go home feeling comfortable with implementing OpenTelemetry in your own applications, and being prepared to choose how you will store and visualize traces.
Last Year's Tracks
Monday, 16 November
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Clientside: From WASM to Browser Applications
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Languages of Infra
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Mechanical Sympathy: The Software/Hardware Divide
Understanding the Hardware Makes You a Better Developer
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Paths to Production: Deployment Pipelines as a Competitive Advantage
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Java, The Platform
Mobile, Micro, Modular: The platform continues to evolve and change. Discover how the platform continues to drive us forward.
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Security for Engineers
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Tuesday, 17 November
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Modern Data Engineering
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Machine Learning for the Software Engineer
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Inclusion & Diversity in Tech
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
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Architecting for Confidence: Building Resilient Systems
Your system will fail. Build systems with the confidence to know when they do and you won’t.
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Remotely Productive: Remote Teams & Software
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Wednesday, 18 November
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Operating Microservices
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Distributed Systems for Developers
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The Future of APIs
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Resurgence of Functional Programming
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Social Responsibility: Implications of Building Modern Software
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Non-Technical Skills for Technical Folks
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