Adopting Observability in Development and Testing
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Observability has typically been associated with site reliability engineering (SRE) to help IT maintain reliability and uptime and to more quickly get to the root cause of IT issues and prevent outages. But observability also has a role to play in software development and in testing.
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, we'll explore the growing trend of developers and test engineers integrating observability tools into the software development life cycle (SDLC). Adopting observability, typically considered the purview of operations and security, helps developers design more operable software and testers enhance efficiency and accuracy. We’ll delve into practical strategies and examples demonstrating how observability tools can identify issues and streamline bug diagnosis, leading to more robust, operable and reliable software solutions.
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, you learn from our panel of observability experts about:
- The significant benefits observability brings to developers and testers.
- Observability-driven design
- Observability as a development tool
- Observability's impact on problem and bug investigation
- How observability can benefit software operability
Adriana Villela
Sr. Staff Developer Advocate - OpenTelemetry, Observability - Lightstep
Adriana is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Lightstep, based out of Toronto, Canada, with over 20 years of experience in tech. She focuses on helping companies achieve reliability greatness by through Observability and Incident Response practices. Before Lightstep, she was a Sr. Manager at Tucows/Wavelo. During this time, she defined technical direction in the organization, running both a Platform Engineering team, and an Observability Practices team. Adriana has also worked at various large-scale enterprises, including Bank of Montreal (BMO), Ceridian, and Accenture. At BMO, she was responsible for defining and driving the bank's enterprise-wide DevOps practice, which impacted business and technology teams across multiple geographic locations across the globe. Adriana has a widely-read technical blog on Medium, which is known for its casual and approachable tone to complex technical topics, and its high level of technical detail. She is also a HashiCorp Ambassador. Find her on Twitter at @adrianamvillela to talk all things tech.
Liz Fong-Jones
Field CTO - Honeycomb
Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with nearly two decades of experience. She is currently the Field CTO at Honeycomb, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights. She lives in Vancouver, BC with her wife Elly, partners, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix, and in Sydney, NSW. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.
Chenxi Wang
Founder and General Partner - Rain Capital
Chenxi Wang is the Founder and General Partner of Rain Capital, a cybersecurity focused venture. A well-known operator, technologist, and thought leader in the cybersecurity industry, Chenxi also serves on the board of directors for MDU Resources, a Fortune 500 company. Chenxi recently founded the Forte Group, a women-in-tech advocacy group. Previously, Chenxi served on the board for OWASP. She was CSO at Twistlock, VP for Intel Security, and VP of research for Forrester. She was recognized as a Women-of-Influence by SC Magazine. Chenxi’s career began as a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. Chenxi holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Virginia.
Bryan Cole
Director of Customer Engineering - Tricentis
Bryan Cole is the Director of Customer Engineering at Tricentis. He has been an advocate for performance testing and engineering for the last two decades, working as a consultant, product manager, subject matter expert, solution architect, and enterprise architect. He believes performance is an attribute, not a feature, and is a strong proponent of a dedicated performance engineering discipline that involves participants from all aspects of the application development lifecycle. Bryan has led strategic conversations with hundreds of customers over the years and loves using stories and analogies to represent complex technical environments to people so that they can be easily understood.
Alan Shimel
Founder & CEO - Techstrong Group
Alan is founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, the company behind DevOps.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard and Digital Anarchist, as well as co-founder of the DevOps Institute. As such, he is attuned to the world of technology, particularly cloud, DevOps, security and open source. With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations. He is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chats podcast, DevOps TV and Digital Anarchist audio and videos are widely followed. Alan attributes his success to a combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality. He is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.
MITCH ASHLEY
CTO, Techstrong Group, Principal - Techstrong Research
Mitchell Ashley is a renowned strategist and technology executive. Mitchell has led successful IT, SaaS, and cybersecurity transformations. He’s led multiple teams in developing and bringing to market successful online services, cybersecurity, and networking products and services. Mitch serves as Principal of Techstrong Research where he leads a team of preeminent experts in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud-native, and cybersecurity. In this role, Mitch works with companies to align digital transformation and technology strategies to achieve disruptive goals and high impact results. Mitch is in high demand as a speaker at conferences the world over, and his popular DevOps Chats podcast engaging with digital leaders is one of the most widely followed in the field.
