Abstract
For decades, visualization of service metrics overwhelmingly converges to line charts. The time-centric nature of real-time telemetry further cemented this phenomenon via storage layouts and domain-specific query languages.
But what questions do we, as service operators, ask or should ask? Can we find all the answers in line charts? Obviously my answer to that last question is no. I want to show you how some of the most valuable operational questions are much better served by presenting, and perhaps processing, telemetry data and metadata in alternative formats.
It is easy for software developers to treat operations as an afterthought. But running software well is a serious engineering challenge in its own right. By taking a fresh and principled look at service telemetry, we can better appreciate both the breadth and depth of this fascinating problem that transcends programming languages, software/hardware abstractions, and application domains.
Speaker
Yao Yue
Platform Engineer, Distributed System Aficionado, Cache Expert, and the Founder of IOP Systems
Yao Yue is a platform engineer with specialties in caching, distributed systems, and performance engineering. She worked at Twitter for 12 years, first led the Cache Team and later created the Performance Team. After November 2022, she co-founded IOP Systems, a company that is working to improve software efficiency and reliability via smart performance engineering, with her teammates from Twitter.
Find Yao Yue at:
Date
Monday Nov 17 / 05:05PM PST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Ballroom BC
