Debugging Production

You get paged about a problem in production - but how do you know just what system or service is acting up? What do you do to identify and mitigate the impact on users before ultimately fixing any underlying issues? In this track, we'll look at state-of-the-art tools and processes for incident management, observability, and debugging high-impact production systems.


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Session debugging

Deconstructing an Abstraction to Reconstruct an Outage

Tuesday Mar 28 / 10:35AM BST

Abstractions are what allow us to build the complex applications that we all use day-to-day. For example, it's rare for us to care about the precise details of on-disk storage when building an application — that's why databases exist!

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Chris Sinjakli

Infra Engineer @planetscaledata

Session application security

Celebrity Vulnerabilities: Effective Response to Critical Production Threats

Tuesday Mar 28 / 11:50AM BST

Log4Shell, Spring4Shell, are you tired of being told to drop everything and respond to the next critical vulnerability in an open-source package? Chances are, if you work in the engineering team of any software development organization, the answer is yes.

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Alyssa Miller

Chief Information Security Officer @EpiqGlobal

Session web development

Observable Frontends

Tuesday Mar 28 / 01:40PM BST

As an industry, we’ve made big strides in working within complexity in microservices: we build in observability with OpenTelemetry standards. But what about client-side? This is the most inscrutable part of our system, because it runs on anyone’s computer.

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Jessica Kerr

Principal Developer Evangelist @honeycombio

Session

Unconference: Debugging in Production

Tuesday Mar 28 / 02:55PM BST

What is an unconference? An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions.

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Shane Hastie

Global Delivery Lead @SoftEd, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods @InfoQ

Session Java

Your Java Application Is Slow? Check Out These Open-Source Profilers

Tuesday Mar 28 / 04:10PM BST

Profilers help to analyze performance bottlenecks of your application - if you know which to use and how to work with them. There are many open-source profilers, like async-profiler or JMC. This talk will give you insights into these tools, focusing on:

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Johannes Bechberger

Software Developer @SAP

Session

No Instrumentation Observability With eBPF - Are We There Yet?

Tuesday Mar 28 / 05:25PM BST

Gaining interest for the past few years, eBPF promises zero-instrumentation observability with low performance overhead. Sounds like a dream, but are we there already?

Speaker image - Anna Kapuścińska

Anna Kapuścińska

Software Engineer @Isovalent

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Tuesday Mar 28 / 10:35PM BST

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Track Host

Abby Bangser

Principal Engineer @Syntasso

Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering.

Abby is an international keynote speaker, co-host of the #CoffeeOps London meetup, and supports SLOConf as a global captain. Outside of work, Abby spoils her pup Zino and enjoys playing team sports.

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