Knowing Things Work instead of Thinking Things Work
by Dani Ames
Sat, Apr 21, 2018
Room:
P0808
Time:
9:15
Production can be a scary environment. Sometimes things are working great and sometimes they're a complete dumpster fire. How do you know your current status? How do you know where your problem is or which server is causing the degradation? In this talk I'll discuss a journey from no application performance monitoring (APM) to "good enough to troubleshoot today" APM and where the team continued after our tire fire was turned back into a normal day. I'll focus on the abstract types of things to watch for and show how easy retrofitting these abilities can be, but for those curious, the examples are built on influxdb, telegraf, and grafana.
About the Author
Dani Ames is a Lead Software Engineer at Sanford Imagenetics in Sioux Falls, South Dakota where she owns test automation for the Imagenetics' clinical genetic testing pipeline. She's been working on the LAMP Stack for over 10 years and is passionate about good engineering and bad jokes. Her past work includes software engineer at EROS and Raven industries, as well as an instructor for Girls Who Code. Dani is described by co-workers as a dangerous unicorn-narwhal halfbreed.