KubeCon North America 2022: A Retrospective

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NewRelic

I spent Day 2 at the Colony Club to attend OTel Unplugged. This event was sponsored by Lightstep, Honeycomb, New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace, Crowdstrike, and NGINX. I came into the event not knowing what to expect. I can sometimes clamp up when I’m around folks that I don’t know, but because I was helping with the event check-in, I got to say hello to a number of the attendees, which helped break the ice. And it turns out that there were a lot of names that I recognized from my work in the OTel community, and it was nice to connect in person with folks whom I’d only previously met through Slack or Zoom.

#Application Performance Monitoring #Performance Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 79 social mentions

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LightStep

I spent Day 2 at the Colony Club to attend OTel Unplugged. This event was sponsored by Lightstep, Honeycomb, New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace, Crowdstrike, and NGINX. I came into the event not knowing what to expect. I can sometimes clamp up when I’m around folks that I don’t know, but because I was helping with the event check-in, I got to say hello to a number of the attendees, which helped break the ice. And it turns out that there were a lot of names that I recognized from my work in the OTel community, and it was nice to connect in person with folks whom I’d only previously met through Slack or Zoom.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Application Performance Monitoring 15 social mentions

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Kubernetes

If there is any conference that is on My Conference Bucket List™, it is most definitely KubeCon. I have a love-hate relationship with Kubernetes (don’t we all, though?), and have spent hours trying to understand its wiley ways, and cursing at my terminal at yet another CrashLoopBackOff. So to go to KubeCon and nerd out on Kubernetes just sounded awesome to me.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 280 social mentions

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Honeycomb

I spent Day 2 at the Colony Club to attend OTel Unplugged. This event was sponsored by Lightstep, Honeycomb, New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace, Crowdstrike, and NGINX. I came into the event not knowing what to expect. I can sometimes clamp up when I’m around folks that I don’t know, but because I was helping with the event check-in, I got to say hello to a number of the attendees, which helped break the ice. And it turns out that there were a lot of names that I recognized from my work in the OTel community, and it was nice to connect in person with folks whom I’d only previously met through Slack or Zoom.

#Developer Tools #Cloud Hosting #Containers As A Service 13 social mentions

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gRPC

I popped in and out of Open Observability Day, and of the talks that I caught, there were two talks that I really enjoyed. One was OTel Me How to Build a Data Pipeline for Observability, by Daniel Kim and Reese Lee. Even though I was already familiar with the content, I really appreciated Daniel and Reese’s super energetic presentation style. It was definitely a welcome pick-me-up to help fight post-lunch food coma. The other talk I really enjoyed was What Can eBPF Actually do for Modern-Day Observability? By Ori Shussman. In it, he talks about how eBPF lets us see data that is otherwise not visible. For example, eBPF is useful for providing greater insight into gRPC calls, which are notoriously difficult to observe. 🤯I also wanted to give a special shout-out to Opening the Door to Observability, by Libby Meren. Although I missed this talk, this topic is very near and dear to my heart, because in my previous role, I had to spend a chunk of time trying to get buy-in on doing Observability The Right Way ™.

#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 86 social mentions