Instrumenting your way to success
by Chris Johnson
Sat, Apr 21, 2018
Room:
P2844
Time:
10:30
Are your log files disorganized? Are they hard to parse and perform an investigation of the performance of your application? Do you have trouble tracking results of an A/B test? Does your business arm require you to have 27 different tracking pixels? If you answered YES to any of these questions come on down and learn how to make your life easier through instrumentation. In this session, we'll dig into how to best instrument an application by looking at a real-world example with a hand-rolled implementation. We'll talk about how to structure the messages and even look at a tool to parse them out so they can provide real business value. Disclaimer: there will be no actual playing of musical instruments in this session.
About the Author
Chris Johnson is a developer, author, teacher, and technology consultant living outside of Madison, Wisconsin. He has been developing application professionally since 2003 when he got his first paycheck as a freelancer. He believes that software development is a craft and an art form, not a science. He enjoys crafting clean code and showing what he has accomplished no matter the tools and materials. When he's not developing he enjoys tinkering with technology and mechanical things, photography, video games, playing hockey along with spending time with his wife, their two daughters and their two dogs.