March SF Metrics Meetup
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The March SF Metrics Meetup stars Edward Muller from Heroku and Joe Ruscio from Librato. Doors open at 6:30pm, talks start at 7pm. Atlassian is our generous host who is also providing beverages and Librato is providing pizza.
O'Reilly Media was kind enough to give us some free books to hand out and some coupons for a 20% discount off Velocity Conference.
System Heuristics Herald
Edward Muller, Heroku (http://www.heroku.com/)
This talk is an introduction to the System Heuristic Herald. It will cover the motivation for writing shh and how it's starting to be used at Heroku.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Joseph Ruscio, Librato (https://librato.com)
A primary function of monitoring systems is distilling massive volumes of input data into useful information, and visualization through dashboards is a powerful technique for surfacing actionable insights. Unfortunately in many cases attention paid to getting dashboards right is lacking when compared to the focus on gathering and storing metrics. This talk explores some of the fundamental principles of designing dashboards, common mistakes, and the appropriate display media for answering different kinds of questions.