Daniel Gomez Blanco
Principal Software Engineer at Skyscanner, OpenTelemetry Governance Committee Member
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Observability lead at Skyscanner, member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee, and author of "Practical OpenTelemetry: Adopting Open Observability Standards Across Your Organization". Throughout my career, my main focus has been reducing the cognitive load required to operate systems at scale. At Skyscanner, I guide hundreds of engineers towards adopting observability best practices over hundreds of services that provide a reliable experience to millions of users each month.
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OpenTelemetry: Bridging Platform And Enablement
OpenTelemetry is everywhere, used by engineers in all roles. For telemetry data to provide effective observability it must permeate all areas of a software system, all the way up the domain-specific aspects that matter the most to end users. As a cross-cutting concern, it should be used within business logic to describe application internals. However, engineers in charge of developing new features are not always empowered with the modern observability practices supported by OpenTelemetry and, in a distributed environment, this may damage the overall observability of the system. In this panel, leaders from organizations at the forefront of this field take us through their experiences building platforms, tooling, enablement materials, and team topologies that allow them to scale adoption of OpenTelemetry best practices with minimal friction, and ensure that the telemetry data produced by their systems is of the highest quality, provides value, and maximizes return-on-investment.
OpenTelemetry in Five Minutes
"Why is OpenTelemetry so complicated?" is a question that we hear -- a lot! There's a lot of reasons for it, and in this lightning talk, we'll briefly touch on the fundamentals behind the OpenTelemetry design and architecture, and why those design decisions help enable the projects goal of making observability a built-in feature of cloud-native software.
Shift Into an Observability Mindset With OpenTelemetry
Truly embracing observability is as much a technology challenge as it is a cultural one. In order to fully reap the benefits, and to efficiently and reliably operate our increasingly complex software systems, organisations must often shift their mindset and rethink their monitoring and debugging practices followed for years, or even decades.
How do you communicate the value of OpenTelemetry to deliver a future-proof strategy? What are the best practices to adopt it with minimal friction? How do you make sure that data volumes are optimised as your traffic scales? How can you encourage teams to make a good use of each telemetry signal to observe their systems? How can you relate the value of observability to business outcomes? This talk aims to provide answers to these questions and give clear advice on how to adopt an observability culture at scale, powered by OpenTelemetry.
OpenTelemetry: Realising the Value of Open Standards
Technology adoption can be challenging, especially when it involves a fundamental change in how engineering teams observe and operate their systems. In this panel moderated by Hope Oluwalolope (Microsoft) we hear from experts in observability like Daniel Gomez Blanco (Skyscanner), Iris Dyrmishi (Miro), and Marcin Sodkiewicz (Ryanair) as they tell us about their experiences adopting OpenTelemetry within their organisations and the value gained from embracing open standards. We’ll hear about their initial motivation for adoption, what steps they took to roll out a solution across teams, success stories after adoption, lessons learnt, some of the challenges they’re still facing today (both technical and human) and what their next steps are to increase the effectiveness of their observability solutions.
OpenTelemetry: Project Updates, Next Steps, and AMA
Join us for the official OpenTelemetry session at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon. Governance committee members will provide insights into the latest developments since the last event in Chicago and offer a glimpse into the future of the project. This session is your chance to engage with OpenTelemetry contributors, ask questions about the project, and receive direct responses from maintainers who will be present at the event. Don't miss this opportunity to stay informed and contribute to the discussion on the exciting advancements within OpenTelemetry.
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