"Microservice comm. done right" & "Modern observability w/ OpenTelemetry"

save the date - 2. Meetup im Juni, da wir im Juli nichts haben!

Agenda:
18:00 doors open
18:25 Microservice Communication Done Right - Damjan Gjurovski
19:30 Pizza break
19:50 Raffle
20:00 Introduction to modern observability with OpenTelemetry - Georg Pirklbauer
21:10 Networking @ Pointers

Microservice Communication done right
Are you dealing with microservices that should have been a monolith? Or are you deploying monoliths and wish you could build microservices? In this talk we will look at communication as both the main driver and blocker for microservices adoption. We will go over organizational and technical patterns and best practices; we will showcase reference implementations and discuss debugging options useful when you must get your hands dirty. Finally, we will go over practical tips on what you can do now to improve your life if you are deep in the microservice trenches.

Damjan Gjurovski started his career as a software engineer building Java & Kotlin Web Applications in the hospitality industry. He then took on the responsibility of a full-stack engineer utilizing React in the frontend. Gradually, his focus shifted to cloud-native development, DevOps and SRE topics.
Damjan has worked with some of the biggest Austrian companies and service providers in the retail, education and finance sector. He enjoys working with new, open- source cloud technologies with focus on security and scalability.

Introduction to modern observability with OpenTelemetry
Modern systems often consist of many moving parts. Not only the rise of microservice architectures, but also the increasing complexity of managing large deployments make it hard to keep track of individual data streams and metrics. The real problems start to show up when things don’t go according to plan. In distributed heterogenous environments, “just adding a few log lines and grep-ing through them” becomes a nightmare quickly.
Luckily, not only software has evolved over the years. Modern observability stacks allow measuring and tracing operations in complex software systems in minute detail. Open-source initiatives like the OpenTelemetry project allow collection of popular signals, which we will see in action in this presentation.

Georg Pirklbauer is a senior software engineer at Dynatrace. He leads the OpenTelemetry team there, which focusses on contributing to the OpenTelemetry project on GitHub. Georg has contributed to the OpenTelemetry project since early 2021 and was involved in expanding Dynatrace’s support for OpenTelemetry. Georg is interested in Open Source, Observability and Cloud Native development.