"Building Observability for 99% Developers" by Jean Yang (Strange Loop 2022)

The rise of SaaS and APIs means that it's easier than ever before to build applications quickly. A small, otherwise under-resourced engineering team can quickly deploy more functionality than they were ever able to before--but what about making sure the system keeps running, or deploying changes with confidence? As it turns out, we'll also want easier visibility, easier monitoring, and easier observability. This is especially true for teams that don't necessarily have large, expert DevOps teams.

In this talk, I'll discuss the visibility and observability needs of “99% developer” teams--and how we can be applying techniques traditionally applied to compilers and program analysis towards building "one-click" observability for these teams.

Jean Yang
Founder and CEO of Akita Software.
@jeanqasaur

Jean Yang is the founder and CEO of Akita Software, a company working to bring visibility and control to modern web applications at the API layer. Jean has a background in programming tools and was previously an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She has a PhD from MIT and a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. The MIT Tech Review named her one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2016.

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