O11y Guide: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls - Underestimating Cardinality

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? 

When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. 

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives that hasty decisions up front lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In the previous article, we talk about how focusing on cloud native observability pillars has outlived its usefulness. Now it's time to move on to another common mistake organizations make, that of underestimating cardinality. By sharing common pitfalls in this series, the hope is that we can learn from them.

O11y Guide: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls - Focusing on The Pillars

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? 

When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. 

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives that hasty decisions up front lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In the previous article, we looked at the problem of controlling cost in cloud native observability. In this article you'll find the next pitfall discussion that's another common mistake organizations make. By sharing common pitfalls in this series, the hope is that we can learn from them.

KCD Oslo 2024 - Observability for you and me with OpenTelemetry (slides)

 As I previously published, today I spoke at the inaugural  Kubernetes Community Day (KCD) in Oslo

Events like KCD Oslo 2024 are essential CNCF community driven and sponsored gatherings in various countries around the globe for developers, engineers, DevOps, managers, and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). 

Last year I shared this talk at KCD Denmark and really enjoyed the community atmosphere combined with enterprise practitioners. This is a well organized event, with +150 attendees that sold outand my talks were so much fun with the engaged and enthusiastic +70 audiences.

Below you'll find the slides from my talk and for completeness, my talk title and abstract.

O11y Guide: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls - Controlling Costs

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? 

When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. 

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives that hasty decisions up front lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In the previous introduction, we looked at the problem facing everyone with cloud native observability. It was the first article in this series. In this article you'll find the first pitfall discussion that's another common mistake organizations make. By sharing common pitfalls in this series, the hope is that we can learn from them.

O11y Guide: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls - Introduction

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? 

When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. 

Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives that hasty decisions up front lead to big headaches very quickly down the road.

In this article, you'll find an introduction to the problem facing everyone with cloud native observability. It is the first article in a series following common pitfalls that I'm seeing organizations make. The idea is that by sharing these pitfalls, we all can learn from them.

Incontro DevOps Italia 2024 - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data

Last year I submitted and was accepted to speak at the Incontro DevOps Italia event, but due to changing circumstances related to work I had to pull out. This is not something I have rarely done and I always make it a point to clear my schedule for the following year to attend. 

This year's priority was for Incontro DevOps Italia 2024 on the 15th of March in Bologna, Italy.  I'm grateful they selected my talk this year and for being part of a select group of speakers.

The city of Bologna is the lively, historic capital of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy. Its Piazza Maggiore is a sprawling plaza lined with arched colonnades, cafes and medieval and Renaissance structures such as City Hall, the Fountain of Neptune and the Basilica di San Petronio. Among the city’s many medieval towers are the Two Towers, leaning Asinelli and Garisenda. I'm personally looking forward to a bit of exploring the culinary offerings that Bologna has to offer!

Below you will find the outline of my talk. 

Cloud Native London Meetup - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Native Observability (slides + recording)

Yesterday I was back to the Cloud Native London meetup, having been given the opportunity to present due to a speaker canceling at the last minute.

They have +7,000 members and it is, "...the official Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Meetup group dedicated to building a strong, open, diverse developer community around the Cloud Native platform and technologies in London." You can also find them on their own slack channel, so feel free to drop in for a quick chat if you like.

There were over 85 attendees that braved the cold London evening to join us for pizza, drinks, and a bit of fun with my session having a special design this time around. I went out on a limb and tried something I've never seen before, a sort of choose-your-own-adventure presentation. Below I've included a description of how I think it went, the feedback I got, and where you can find both the slides and recording online if you missed it.

Cloud Native London Meetup - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Native Observability

 I'm heading back to the Cloud Native London meetup this week, having been given the opportunity to present due to a speaker canceling at the last minute.

I am always happy to help out and the hop to London from the Netherlands is a short and easy trip.

They have +7,000 members and it is, "...the official Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Meetup group dedicated to building a strong, open, diverse developer community around the Cloud Native platform and technologies in London." You can also find them on their own slack channel, so feel free to drop in for a quick chat if you like.

That session I presented last time in January of 2023 was about the pitfalls everyone should avoid with cloud data and they live streamed it with a recording available online if you want to revisit.

Tomorrow, on Wednesday, 10 January in London I'll be sharing some brand new content on the pitfalls of cloud native observability.

O11y Guide - Beginners Guide to Open Source Instrumenting Java

Instrumenting Metrics in Java

Are you interested in joining the cloud native world and wondering what cloud native observability means for you? 

Did you always want to know more about instrumentation, metrics, and your options for coding with open standards? 

Are you a Java developer and looking for a working example to get started instrumenting your applications and services?

Look no further, as this article provides you with an easy to understand guide to instrumenting your Java using open standards.

In this article you'll learn what open source metrics are, the projects used to collect them, about the libraries available to you as a Java developer for metrics instrumentation, apply instrumentation creating a fully working example in Java for the main four metrics types, and finally, setup metrics collection to explore your Java metrics in real-time.