Nora Jones and Charity Majors will share their experiences leading major movements shaping the future of shipping software. Nora Jones is CEO of Jeli...

This panel moves beyond the technical aspects of observabilty to examine the business case for adopting this new way of working. Observablity can help teams lower their MTTR, lower change failure rates, and speed up time to delivery in production...

With a new project started in early 2020, I knew that I wanted to observability deeply integrated. To that end, the system is deeply instrumented with traces. At the outset, the benefits of that approach were unclear to me. Similar to installing multiple cables before installing drywall during home construction...

Distributed tracing is generally a binary affair—it's off or on. Either a trace is sampled or, according to a flag, it's not. Span placement is also assumed to be an "always-on" system where spans are always added if the trace is active...

Observability improvements in mature applications can provide unique benefits; making hidden performance issues more obvious, illustrating dependencies between components, and allowing developers to more confidently work in a system that they may have had no part in building...

With adoption of microservices and cloud-native solutions increasing, observability is receiving heightened interest in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) since it enables chasing down the “unknown unknowns,” completing Root Cause Analyses, and fixing complex issues...

As an internal observability champion, I helped to promote observability principles and concepts to our teams, and was responsible for organizing an evaluation of our observability tooling. In this talk, I will talk about how I planned, strategized, and organized our observability tooling evaluation...

OpenTelemetry is a great tool for observability and debugging in production. It provides you with data that empowers understanding of what is slow or broken, as well as what you can do to fix problems that occur in production. But what if you could...

Are you intentionally breaking your production services? Chaos Engineering is the practice of setting up controlled failure experiments in production to help us improve our understanding of how systems work in order to make them better. How exactly are we all testing in prod? In this open space...

The modern open source landscape is hard enough, given the (sometimes) conflicting interests of commercial partners, end-users, and project maintainers. It takes a real, intentional effort to build collaborative relationships across these groups in order to make improvements to projects...

We say we want to live in a world where the development team who writes the code also owns that code’s success-or failure-in production. To that end, nothing incentivizes a team to ship better quality software than getting paged about production issues at 2am...

An entire team must fundamentally focus on testing and operability to ensure success. Fifteen years ago, we used to physically burn software onto discs that were packaged and shipped to customers. The cost for failure in that world was enormous. So we'd spend weeks—sometimes months—testing prior to release...

You've likely heard about or are using OpenTelemetry; the open-source project that helps you generate application telemetry in vendor-neutral ways. Or, perhaps you're using a vendor-specific instrumentation library (for example, Honeycomb's Beelines). Maybe you're trying to decide which to use...

Babylon has a vision to bring affordable and accessible healthcare to the world. A key part of that vision is having a highly-available, global platform for healthcare delivery that is a delight to use for both customers and clinicians. At Babylon, we've historically thought about...

“But it worked in staging!” is the new “But it works in my machine?”. Docker, kubernetes and friends have made it easier to create similar environments, but it is still impossible to create environments that are the same as production...

The "three pillars of observability" were a useful conceptual start, but they are far from exhaustive. Just look at the array of tools engineers still use to troubleshoot and you'll see a lot more than just metrics, logs and traces...

In enterprise environments, where observability is a "new" idea and conservative approaches to developer and operations experiences are favored, introducing novelty is often seen as a risk. When confronting these sorts of headwinds, what's the best way to make progress? How can you...

Reliability work is typically reactive: from working on how we respond to incidents to applying what we've learned in those incidents to our applications. In this session, I'll look at the Adjacent Possible—a theory from evolutionary biology that's been applied to innovation—and how we can iterate toward things that seem impossible to know...

You have them—we want to hear them. Tell us about your incidents, problems, frustrations, insights, or anything else you'd like to share about using observability in real production scenarios...

In 2018, Peter Alvarao joined us at o11ycon to deliver a visionary and thought-provoking talk around the problems we had yet to solve. In retrospect, he ended up painting a picture of the problems that ultimately defined a lot of the work that was done in the observability space for the next three years...