The New Stack Context: Monitorama 2019
Welcome to The New Stack Context, a weekly wrap-up podcast of all the news and events from the week. This week, we come live from the Monitorama conference, held this week in Portland, where we spoke with Liz Fong Jones, developer advocate at observability service provider Honeycomb.io and Quintessence Anx, developer advocate, at ELK as a Service provider Logz.io.
With Jones and Anx, we discussed the culture of burnout in the IT industry and how companies can better consider the humans who design and run their systems. We also discussed our takeaways from the conference itself. Then later in the show, show host Libby Clark, editorial and marketing director at The New Stack, discusses the top news from the site with Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor. We discuss the update to Honeycomb.io’s observability platform, and Palo Alto Networks intended purchase of container security provider Twistlock and serverless security provider PureSec. Oh, also we discuss Pivotal’s new Spring-based OpenJDK distribution, and alarming new research on “deepfake” videos.
Monitorama Highlights:
Given how complex our systems are, they should break all the time. But they don’t. Why? Operators are doing the work. #monitorama @allspaw pic.twitter.com/Zo4BwQRtl5
— Libby Clark (@LibbyMClark) June 3, 2019
Measuring vulnerabilities isn’t a useful way to measure success of a chaos engineering program. #monitorama @nora_js pic.twitter.com/viV8xo1OeM
— Libby Clark (@LibbyMClark) June 3, 2019
Outages are awesome! Postmortems on an outage direct your attention to where it’s needed and provide a data driven argument for making change says Nida Farrukh @Microsoft #Monitorama pic.twitter.com/uNq97Rkoh4
— Libby Clark (@LibbyMClark) June 3, 2019
You can use the same observability tools for optimizing cost at scale says Ryan Lopopolo @stripe #Monitorama Don’t trust AWS pricing tools! Measure the real cost. pic.twitter.com/u5ristk2GP
— Libby Clark (@LibbyMClark) June 3, 2019
“Sometimes you have to distill things to a basic level and not assume prior knowledge.” Unveiling Phippy and friends to explain Prometheus @geek_dave #monitorama @PhippyMountains pic.twitter.com/Zx7LvFEBPY
— Libby Clark (@LibbyMClark) June 3, 2019
Engineering doesn’t just mean writing software. It’s the art of solving problems. We can’t keep rewarding complexity. Reward people for solving problems. @lizthegrey #Monitorama pic.twitter.com/4cqrlo4AyC
— Libby Clark (@LibbyMClark) June 3, 2019
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Editor’s note: This article has been updated. Logz.io is an ELK as a Service provider, not a troubleshooting firm as previously stated.