Next-Gen Observability with eBPF & OpenTelemetry
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Hey everyone – Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of the Observability Engineering London meetup!
Join us on the 24th of January to learn about eBPF & OpenTelemetry from two great speakers and network with your fellow Observability Champions over pizza and drinks.
👾 Gameplan:
6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:15 Welcome
6:30 Adam Wilson: | OpenTelemetry - The Human Development Kit
7:00 Anna Kapuścińska | eBPF for Observability - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
7:30 Discussion & Networking
8:15 Wrap up
See you all there!
Karim
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A Bit About Anna Kapuścińska
Anna is a Software Engineer at Isovalent, focusing on Kubernetes observability. Her previous roles span the industry: she wore both developer and SRE hats and worked in AdTech, FinTech, public healthcare, end-user SaaS companies, and a hosting provider. On good weather nights, you can find her in local parks on nighttime runs mixed with stargazing. On bad weather ones, likely with a book and a cup of tea. You can connect with Anna on LinkedIn & X
Talk | eBPF for Observability - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
eBPF’s promise of zero-instrumentation observability with low-performance overhead sounds like a dream and is driving wide adoption in observability tooling. At the same time, as a relatively low-level technology, it is often poorly understood or even feared. To bridge this gap, we will dive into how eBPF serves the observability field. Anna will start by introducing eBPF features that let us achieve observability with no code changes. Next, she will examine a few distinct eBPF use cases in open-source tools. Finally, we will discuss the limits of using eBPF for observability and how it plays together with other frameworks.
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A Bit About Adam Wilson
Adam is a Principal SRE at ComplyAdvantage, where his current obsession is OpenTelemetry and vendor-neutral approaches to solving infrastructure problems. Outside of work, he is a Senior Schools Project Officer for Tree Action UK and will gladly talk to you about playing drums, baking bread, and hugging trees. You can connect with Adam on LinkedIn.
Talk | OpenTelemetry - The Human Development Kit
How do you get the humans in your org to "do the work," buy into the observability-driven development practices, and start to put open telemetry's power at the forefront of their thinking during incidents and debugging?
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If you would like to give a presentation at one of our events, please DM Karim.