Observy McObservface

Our first repeat guest ever, Austin Parker, Principal Developer Advocate at Lightstep, talks about OpenTelemetry: an observability framework for cloud-native software that is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. You use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis to understand your software's performance and behavior.

The OpenTelemetry specification is now in 1.0! What does this mean?

It means we've achieved a major milestone in defining the observability framework for cloud-native applications, and that production-ready 1.0 releases of OpenTelemetry libraries will start being released over the next weeks and months! 🎉

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In this episode, Jason Yee, Director of Advocacy at Gremlin, talks about community: growth, monetization, and sustainment, as well as creating a sense of belonging amidst living life during a pandemic by attending virtual events and participating in the new wave of online streaming.

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In this episode, Wesley Faulkner, Developer Relations at Daily, talks about ethical networking by sharing your whole self and going beyond transactional relationships, i.e. what your job is, what your role is, and how those relate to each other. 

Wesley also says that the people who are extremely good at what they do aren't as good as what you may perceive and that when you're getting started in programming, you're not as bad as you think. Don't be too rough on yourself and don't think that people are perfect. Mistakes are what make us. Keep trying. Keep moving. No matter where you go, you're going to end up where you need to be.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee of Pixie Labs talk about joining forces with New Relic to accelerate the Pixie Community. The goal at Pixie has been to try to provide a unified experience between what you see on the command-line and what you see on a web UI or mobile phone, instantly troubleshoot applications on Kubernetes – no instrumentation needed, and to run community, team, or custom scripts to debug as code: publish and share sessions as code with a team and/or community members.

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.

In this episode, Katy Farmer, Technical Community Manager at CircleCI, talks about creating welcoming and friendly spaces, but that you had better follow her code of conduct! Katy is not here for people being rude. She protects her angels within her community. Katy is also all about treating DevRel booth people equally. Everyone is qualified to be there. Don’t ask to speak to a “technical” person, if and when in-person conferences ever resume.

Finally, Katy reminisces about working in customer service. Was it terrible? Yes, but she is very grateful that she did because it gave her the skills to help people ask questions and backtrack through problems. 

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In this episode, Quintessence Anx, Developer Advocate at PagerDuty where she helps to train people on patterns for notifications, alerts, stopping alerts, and stuff so you don't get woken up unless you absolutely really should be woken up, talks about battling alert fatigue, mean time to recovery and post-mortems as being not the way to measure things, the evolution of ChatOps, and why it’s important as a mentor to introduce newbies to your professional network.

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In this episode, Nell Shamrell-Harrington, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, talks about fun corporate law-y things like open-source licenses, trademarks, and patents, diving head-first into the Rust language, and the importance of being kind. Don't do tech alone! Communities are fun. Community is important.

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In this episode, Kat Cosgrove, developer advocate at JFrog, talks about working on firmware updates for self-driving cars called Donkey Cars, the importance of on-point documentation, and getting the community, especially newbies, involved in open-source projects, programming, and speaking. There are no stupid questions, and stop calling your things “easy”!

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In this episode, Tim Banks, Principal Solutions Architect at Packet, an Equinix Company, talks about prioritizing a customer-first mentality, how observability = insight, and the real cost of developer burnout, and why companies should be more proficient in helping to prevent it.

As far as observability goes, Tim wants to know what's going on inside something be it a container, a process, or a stack – and he wants to know what's going on before something breaks. Monitoring and alerting typically happen when things are going south and then you do something about it. Unfortunately, this tends to happen in person-to-person communication as well. We are as much building systems of humans around the technical systems that we are developing. Investing in people and their mental health is essential. 

Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at [email protected]. While you’re going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you’d like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @ObservyMcObserv.