April 2018 meetup

Agenda:
17:30 - 18:30 Walk-in
18:00 Food & drinks
18:30 An introduction to distributed tracing with OpenTracing
19:30 Break
20:00 Over-engineering: The hidden monster
21:30 Wrapping up

Location, food & drinks brought to you by: Ambassadors

Talks:

• Rio Kierkels - Ambassadors - An introduction to distributed tracing with OpenTracing

Getting and maintaining insight into your distributed systems is a hard and seemingly never ending problem.
Logging and metrics are the go to tools for this however both of those tools make it hard to answer the question: "What systems did this particular request hit and how long did each span of work take?". Distributed tracing is what should be able to answer that question, Using the OpenTracing API it can be done without vendor lock-in and sometimes even without any coding at all!

Bio:
Rio Kierkels; having a soft spot for film, visual effects and technology, Rio joined the creative production studio Ambassadors where he'd work on projects involving a multitude of disciplines including visual effects, virtual reality, hardware installations and distributed systems.

• Mete Bulutay - 4C Insights - Over-engineering: The hidden monster

This session describes how over-engineering appears in different stages of a software project and how it damages the project showcasing past experiences of the speaker in a funny way. After showcasing each project, solutions to how to prevent over-engineering were covered with positive experiences from the past as well. This is an interactive session where the attendants are encouraged to share their experiences and discussing how negative effects of over-engineering could be minimized in those particular cases.

Bio:
Mete Bulutay is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience in software design & development most of which were spent in working in public sector and defence projects in his homeland, Turkey. He is living in Netherlands since last year and he is currently working for 4C Insights, located in Eindhoven.

Parking:
Paid parking at the other side of the street.

OV:
Tram 7 and 14, and bus 22, 65, and 37, stop a short 5 minute walk away from the office.