Born from Uber - OpenSource Observability with M3 and Jaeger

Hey everyone, it's about time to have lunch with your friends at DevOps & Drinks. In October, we are featuring 2 opensource projects, both of which were created by some of Uber's amazing engineering teams.

Join us on October 15th to hear about two open-source observability solutions - M3 and Jaeger - which were both born at Uber.

Rob Skillington, CTO of Chronosphere and Co-founder of M3 at Uber will discuss metrics and monitoring at scale with M3, while Prithvi Raj, an engineer at Uber, will present on distributed tracing using Jaeger.

Abstract for M3 Rob Skillington - CTO & Co-founder of M3 : (20-25 mins)

M3, a metrics platform, and M3DB, a distributed time-series database, were developed at Uber out of necessity. After using what was available as open-source and finding we were unable to use them at our scale due to issues with their reliability, cost, and operationally intensive nature we built our own metrics platform piece by piece. We used our experience to help us build a native distributed time-series database, a highly dynamic and performant aggregation service, query engine, and other supporting infrastructure.

Abstract for Jaeger (Prithvi): (20-25 mins)

Distributed tracing has become an important tool for any organization that operates systems with many microservices. This talk gives a high-level introduction to how Jaeger works and delves into some applications of tracing.

As always, the Averity DevOps & Security team will be on hand to discuss the state of the job market and what's new in tech. Alex also might just bring one of his guitars out, and play a few requests! Hope to see you there!