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We hope you and yours are safe during these unique times. To keep the community going, we're taking SRE NYC online with a series of virtual meetups on Zoom over the next few months! So, saddle up at home with a drink (or 3) and join us for our first two incredible talks next week.

Cory Watson (technical advocate at Splunk, former Observability Lead at Stripe, SRE at Twitter) will be giving a talk on "Applied Observability," followed by Bobby Ross (founder & CEO of FireHydrant, former Staff Software Engineer at Namely, Digital Ocean) giving a talk about "The Changing State of Kubernetes."

Agenda:
6:45 - 7:00 Social
7:00 - 8:15 Talks

Talk 1: Cory Watson: Applied Observability

Observability is great, right? Until you read something like "[t]he belief that more data or information automatically leads to better decisions is probably one of the most unfortunate mistakes of the information society." Ruh-roh raggy! How effective have all those traces, metrics and logs been in solving your problems?

To that end, let's discuss applied observability. It's what you do with telemetry that actually improves things for your operators. We'll commiserate a bit about cost and efficacy, discuss user needs, and finally discuss some actionable ideas you can try.

Talk 2: Bobby Ross: The Changing State of K8's

Kubernetes state is changing all the time. Pods are being created. Deployments are adding more replicas. Load balancers are being created from services. All of these things can happen without anyone noticing. But sometimes we need to notice, however, for when we need to react to such events. What if we need to push the change to an audit log? When if we want to inform a Slack room about a new deployment? In Kubernetes, this is possible with the informers that are baked into the API and Go client. In this talk we’ll learn how informers work, and how to receive updates when resources change using a simple Go application.

Speaker Bio's:

Cory is a Technical Advocate at Splunk, leading high impact, customer-focused projects around observability and monitoring. Cory started his journey to observability as an SRE at Twitter, and continued on to found the observability team at Stripe. He is a strong voice in the observability community, through OSS, popular tweets, blog posts and speaking engagements. Cory has over 20 years of software engineering experience, and an active founder / contributor of several successful Open Source projects. Before finding his passion in observability, he worked in several industries such as e-commerce, consulting, healthcare, and fintech.

Bobby is the founder of FireHydrant.io, and also previously worked as a staff software engineer at Namely, and built things at DigitalOcean. He likes bleeding edge tech and making software that helps teams build better systems. From deploying Spinnaker, Istio, and Kubernetes, he has cursed at a lack of docs and code spelunked through the code and loves telling the war stories about them.

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