Making Observability Make Sense

Join us for our upcoming Women in DevOps Berlin event, 'Making Observability Make Sense,' in collaboration with SumUp.
Expect a number of short presentations from our speakers on Observability Based Topics, where our SRE and DevOps experts will reveal their observability best practices. Please note this is at SumUp HQ In Berlin, however, will also be recorded for those online to view. SumUp HQ also has a children's area for little ones.

RSVP and save your spot: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-observability-make-sense-tickets-391695330277

Our panel:
- Antonia Otter - Host & EU Co-Founder @ Women in DevOps
- Leonard Becker - DevOps Engineer @ SumUp
- Nadya Shakhat - Cloud Architect @ Nordcloud
- Bhavna Sagta - Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Sumup

Leonard Becker
Leo is a Senior DevOps Engineer at SumUp, specializing in the field of Observability. During his studies, he focused mainly on computer networks and how their failures on the internet can be measured. At the moment he is leading the development around the initiatives of highly distributed tracing on the edge of the network, enabling better visibility into how users perceive SumUp’s products. Outside of the cloud environment he also likes to tinker with embedded software development.

Nadya Shakhat
Nadya is a Cloud Architect in Nordcloud. During her 10+ years career, she has changed different roles, such as Software Engineer and Development Manager. Besides that, she was a Core Developer in the Ceilometer Telemetry Project in OpenStack, where she could see in practice the importance of Observability in the Cloud. At the moment Nadya is helping Nordcloud customers with their Observability strategy and Datadog usage.

Bhavna Sagta
Bhavna Sagta is working as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at SumUp, Berlin. She brings about 7 years of cloud-native experience from companies like VMware, Adobe. She comes with a comprehensive experience in building distributed systems and cloud-native architectures using open source technologies. Reliability, Service mesh, Kubernetes, Cloud are a few things which interest her.

Presentation #1: What lies behind the magic of auto instrumentation by Nadya Shakhat

These days tracing is considered as one of the essential pillars of observability along with metrics and logging. That’s why the ease of code instrumentation is crucial for the successful implementation of the most recent observability practices. Although so-called manual instrumentation is here to stay, auto instrumentation can significantly help, especially if you are in the early stages of the observability journey and want to quickly see and evaluate the value it can bring you. At first sight, auto instrumentation may seem pure magic, but in reality, it is only 70% of it. In this talk, I’ll give you an overview of technologies, which lie behind auto instrumentation in such languages as Java and Python. We will discuss the main principles of distributed tracing of cloud-native applications and will see what big vendors such as AWS or GCP do to accelerate the adoption of different tracing methods and libraries. Finally, we will see some colourful and meaningful flame graphs built by Datadog. This talk is for developers and DevOps, who want to know the most recent trends in the observability area.

Presentation #2: End-To-End Visibility through highly distributed tracing by Leonard Becker

When referring to `distributed tracing`, what we usually mean is collecting events from different services in our backend infrastructure and combining them into single traces that give us a broad overview of what is happening. However, looking just at the backend really only tells half the story when talking about things like user-perceived latencies and error rates. In those cases, what we really want is to have visibility into the full lifecycle of a request made by the users - starting from them tapping a button in an app or clicking a link on a website.
In this talk, I am going to present to you the work we have been doing at SumUp recently to solve this problem.

Presentation #3: Observability between Microservices using Istio Telemetry by Bhavna Sagta

Observability in a Microservice based architecture is critical and there are tons of efforts already made to have good insights into your application. As services grow in complexity, it becomes challenging to understand behaviour and performance. Istio generates detailed telemetry for all communications within a service mesh. In this demonstration, we will learn how Istio can help to remove the inter-service-communication complexity, and simplify observability and traffic management using Envoy proxy.

This is a hybrid event - you can watch via our live streaming link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YmWH13ADRCqD4xTgD-_0rQ