[Talk #14] Observability showcase: Jaeger, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry

In this showcase event, we will be discussing the value proposition, key features, and latest updates on the following popular Observability projects.

🔶 [Speaker 1] Jaeger: https://www.jaegertracing.io/
Joe Elliott, Principal Engineer @ Grafana Labs
Joe Elliott has been working as an SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure person with Kubernetes for the last 4 years. Currently a Principal Engineer at Grafana, he is the creator of Tempo, a Jaeger maintainer, and has contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector, Loki, and Cortex. When he’s not at the keyboard or wrangling kids, Joe likes to get out on his bike.

🔶 [Speaker 2] OpenSearch: https://opensearch.org/
Jonah Kowall, CTO – Product strategy and execution @ Logz.io.
Jonah Kowall, a computer scientist and open-source contributor committed to FreeBSD and built the first wireless cracking algorithms. Today Jonah focuses on observability, contributing and maintaining projects such as OpenSearch, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. Jonah received his CISSP and CISA, along with several certifications and awards. Throughout 15 years as a practitioner and manager across startups and large enterprises specialized in operations, security, and performance.

🔶 [Speaker 3] OpenTelemetry: https://opentelemetry.io/
Reiley Yang, Principal Software Engineering Manager @ Microsoft
Reiley has been actively representing Microsoft to drive the CNCF OpenTelemetry project, with his latest focus on metrics API/SDK design and several language SDKs. Before working on telemetry solutions, Reiley has years of experience working on many projects, including compilers, debuggers, profilers, language runtimes, and high-availability large-scale distributed services.

🔶 [Event Host] Kai Gray is CEO & Co-Founder at Motive, the world’s largest consumer-oriented product rating service, about the impacts of brands on the issues that matter. Kai successfully grew Operations at Carbonite, then Upthere, acquired by data infrastructure giant, Western Digital in 2017. He takes particular joy in building great teams and watching people grow and learn as they become great leaders.

Agenda
🔺10:00 – 10:10 – Kickoff & a word from our sponsor Xosphere
🔺10:10 – 10:30 – Project 1, Q&A – Joe Elliot
🔺10:30 – 10:50 – Project 2, Q&A – Reiley Young
🔺10:50 – 11:10 – Project 3, Q&A – Jonah Kowall
🔺11:10 – 11:15 – Q&A
🔺11:15 – 11:20 – Wrap up
🔺11:20 – Done!

Are you a member interested in presenting to the group? Please submit your talk here: https://forms.gle/646zqhmX2pZ7e1G39

Sponsor: A giant THANK YOU to the team at Zelarsoft for supporting and arranging this month’s meetup! Thanks also to our organizers Vasu Maganti, Josh Hurst, and Thu Vuong for their ongoing support.

Event Details:

ZOOM WEBINAR LINK:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/97040649413

Date & Time:

Tuesday, August 17, 2021, 10:30 PM to Wednesday, August 18, 2021, 12:00 AM IST