London Observability Engineering Meetup | April Edition
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This event is sponsored by PagerDuty
Hosted by Wise
[IMPORTANT] Please bring a Government-issued photo ID, as it will be required for venue entry.
Hey everyone!
We're back with another event. On Wednesday, April 23rd, we’ll be joined by Igor Naumov (Lead Software Engineer) and Jamie Thirlwell (Principal Software Engineer) at LoveHolidays to discuss how to leverage observability to impact business KPIs, and by Daniel Afonso (Senior Developer Advocate) at PagerDuty to talk about how to plan for the unplanned with Chaos Engineering game days.
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👾 Gameplan:
6:00 Welcome drinks
6:10 Introduction
6:20 Igor Naumov + Jamie Thirlwell | How Page Speed Impacts Customer Experience in Online Travel
7:00 Break | Food/drinks and Networking
7:35 Daniel Afonso | Game Days with Chaos Engineering
8:30 Wrap up
👋 Connect with us
See you all there!
Karim
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A Bit About Igor Naumov
Lead engineer at Loveholidays. Passionate about web performance and scalable infrastructure.
You can connect with Igor on Linkedin
A Bit About Jamie
Principal Software Engineer at loveholidays with a focus on web performance, scalability, and front-end optimisation. Passionate about building fast, user-friendly experiences and sharing best practices with the developer community.
You can connect with Jamie on Linkedin
Talk | How Page Speed Impacts Customer Experience in Online Travel.
As one of the UK’s leading online travel agencies, Loveholidays serves millions of customers.
Join us as we share how we tackled the challenge of building a fast, scalable front-end that outperforms Google on core web vitals. Learn how we gathered actionable user data, bridged tooling gaps, and linked web performance to business outcomes.
Discover how we aligned technical goals with organisational success, uniting business and technical teams through the shared language of core web vitals and page speed.
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A Bit About Daniel
Daniel Afonso is a Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty, SolidJS DX team member, Instructor at Egghead.io, and Author of State Management with React Query.
Daniel has a full-stack background, having worked with different languages and frameworks on various projects from IoT to Fraud Detection. He is passionate about learning and teaching and has spoken at multiple conferences around the world about topics he loves.
In his free time, when he's not learning new technologies or writing about them, he's probably reading comics or watching superhero movies and shows.
You can connect with Igor on Linkedin
Talk | Plan for Unplanned Work: Game Days with Chaos Engineering
How do you plan for unplanned incidents? You practice with Chaos Engineering. Strong incident response doesn’t just happen, you have to build the skills and train your team. Practicing for major incidents gives your team insight into how your applications will behave when something goes wrong as well as how the team will interact to solve problems. Combining your Incident Response practices with Chaos Engineering roots your response practice in real-world scenarios, helping your team build confidence.
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London Observability Engineering Meetup | April Edition