Monitorama 2016
Here are some blathering links. I would write up something real, but conferences are exhausting and I am going to be a puddle for a few days so sorry.
The swag was pretty great. Lots of tshirts. None in womens sizes, but eh
Before the first conf talk, the photographer was shooting me and some people I was chatting with, and I stepped aside and told him “please dontphotogrph me” and he appeared to understand and stop.
There was no code of conduct announcement in the conference introduction. (There was the second day, but not on the third day)
Here are some links and thoughts:
monday
- @adrianco on Monitoring Challenges
- zipkin
- spigo simulate interesting microarchitectures
- tool - guestimate
- IBM openwhisk
- serverless - spiky workload, more secure because it’s “off” between usages
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance
- http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/a-brief-tour-of-flp-impossibility/
- monitor.yml
- https://bigpanda.io/monitoringscape/
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16/venue-hotel-and-travel
- recommended book (Phoenix Project is based on it)
- https://worldping-demo.raintank.io/dashboard/db/monitorama-ping
- https://web.pipelineconf.info/
- http://info.puppet.com/2016-state-of-devops-report.html
- “Who here as a has a… friend… who works in a pathological org?”
- westrum org culture
- recommended
- https://www.circonus.com/pully-mcpushface/
- Stripe guy recommends using
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy
- monthly “state of” addresses
- My Philosophy on Alerting
- kelsey hightowner live demo - I prefer narrating to a recorded demo but ok
- “this is the worst tool I could have designed. You run and configure it by copying and pasting and changing its source” (bash)
- https://github.com/facebookarchive/scribe
- facebook cubism dashboard
- suman karumuri pinterst
- jerry catnell - lifeqode
- alert fatigue@caitie runbook and alert audits. two weeks.
- runbook template on github
- Engineering for the Long Game - Astrid Atkinson Keynote
- “Engineering for the Long Game”
- references section sounds good. why names instead of talk names? “and we do this at twitter with like six people.” billions of machines”
- Mark- human scale systems. presentations, fluff, against megacli, “optimize behavior of employees”, 81 markets
- redfin people services
- https://www.tableau.com/ too self deprecating
- http://opentsdb.net/
- https://www.librato.com/
- “You can tell who had a bad time in the 90s by pulling out the batbook. Old sysadmins will cringe.”
tuesday
- Yay CoC announcement!
- Also lol his mom said she’s proud :)
- Ganglia (system metrics)
- happy usage of http://opentsdb.net/ at pinterest
- Java Ostritch for in process aggregation
- user education
- awesome talk Scaling Pinterest’s Monitoring System by Brian Overstreet
- metrics blacklist??? log that some metrics are dropped?
- sample rate
- http://druid.io/
- emily - moving logic into frontend, just as we’re getting better visibility into backend
- bugsnag dashboard 2
- third-party code- diff for diff users - ghostery - enterprise - visibility. 68 unique vendors, all have access to your client side data
- webpack, namespacing “they inject their own version of jquery. why are you doing that?”
- “Our code doesn’t always run where you think it runs. It wanders off. One of the joys of having your code always be public.”
- service workiner in the browser, offline cache, earlier in page load for data request?
- network simulation tool
- accessibility monitoring
- “many browsers roll out a new version every monthish, and they re getting better and better of matching the tests”
- “progressive webaps as the new new old new thing”
- awesome talk What Your Javascript Does When You’re Not Around Emily Nakashima
- sponsors- anybody named steve. Sarah? Operable and libratto
- conf highglights so far- womens breakfast, first two talks on tuesday
- they wrote their own! basecamp chicken and waffles
- post break talk: heka-flood
- marvel
- db monitoring at Dropbox, master/slave :(
- mi - Abigail’s “shape of” codebase idea
- post lunch guy - laden with discontent - says “not trying to bodyshame” - all-male panel, “catastrophic digression”, “neckbeards”, “apocalyptic take of woe, the faustian hell in which he is trapped”
- activestate perl on windows, mapi email.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_Framework
- docker, jessfraz: 150 PRs per week, 2 ppl to test each PR, one long brag?, apt ftp archive, “No one want to be hardcore when everything is on fire”, out to lunch with the letsencrypt team, https://twitter.com/phunt
- https://github.com/icecrime/vossibility-stack
- https://github.com/etsy/opsweekly
- .net and waterfall?
- mongoooo OR http://www.wiredtiger.com/
lighting talks:
- https://chain.com/
- https://r.32k.io/
- stella
- splunk plug? not great slides
- monitoring taxonomy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
- taylor swift talk? O.o
- There was an activity that sounded cool but I didn’t go- salesforce! games! Guardian Games, 345 Southeast Taylor Street, Portland, OR 97214
- “A little bit about us- lots of y’all are our customers.”
- hanabi the game analogy
- https://exosite.com/
- brave charlie
- hosted graphite - follow up talk, lizard brain, mental health of oncall eng
- amazon “They burn people out like little tealights. That’s not the goal.”
weds
- netflix vizceral
- http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/10/flux-new-approach-to-system-intuition.html
- http://threejs.org/
- salp request tracing
- some dudue named Yaz
- “robust perception”
- promethius
- https://cncf.io/
- netflix talk - not bad. First two from tues still my fav.
- “learning how to not be a primary - a tale of three servers”
- TW UK thinktank, gift
- @beerops
- https://laur.ie/blog/2014/02/why-ill-be-letting-nagios-live-on-a-bit-longer-thank-you-very-much/
- deployinator etsy
- https://github.com/etsy/trylib
- try-nagios
- nagios-validate (in the process of open sourcing)
- perfnag etsy http://blog.catchpoint.com/2015/10/28/etsy-actionable-alerts/
- https://github.com/lozzd/Nagdash prettness for mult nagios instances
- nagios-herald add context to alerts
- per-page (webpage url) perf alerts
- omg gmail filters omg
- awesome talk How to Teach an Old Monitoring System New Tricks Katherine Daniels
- oncall report omg yass
- this conf is actually moderately valuable
- omg fitops, 7-8am workout
- the oncall bedtime helper is omg so good omg
- http://www.stackdriver.com/
- honest about the state of the universe
- “As I learned from staring a company, you need to be able to see into the future on a regular basis”
- igb driver stats wrong ????
- he’s reading the presenter notes for the old one
- airbnb
- https://github.com/airbnb/interferon
- https://launchdarkly.com/index.html
- final talk: google