Orlando, FL Event | Disney OpenTelemetry Workshop for Observability

Overview: In this Instructor-led session, we will instrument a software application to emit OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics, events, logs, and traces (MELT Framework). Together, we'll ingest and associate this data, and we will add a visualization layer of our extracted Metrics from the Events. We’ll show how these KPIs quantify user impact/ tie to SLOs and will be correlated across our infrastructure, k8s container, network, AWS CloudWatch, and APM telemetry, allowing for informed decisions when incidents arise.

‍Date and time: On Wednesday, May 22nd we'll be at Disney's offices in Orlando, FL for this fun and informative event.

Daytime Format | Instructor-led Enablement Workshop (Virtual or Onsite):

‍Join Evolutio's 2-hour instructor-led training and short lab (sponsored by Cisco) exploring topics related to OpenTelemetry (OTel) and why it matters for Observability and User Experience.

In this workshop, participants will learn about the OTel data standard, why the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) builds projects like Kubernetes and now OTel, and how it can be leveraged to bridge the gap amongst observability silos and tie to SLOs within organizations.

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Who is this for: Network Engineers, DevOps, Applications/ Monitoring/ Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Infrastructure engineering teams and business leaders or other strategic roles in IT and Digital Transformation who are trying to navigate their Observability practice across hybrid environments (mix of on-prem and cloud) and multi-cloud (across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other hyperscalers).

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Agenda on Wed Apr. 24th, 2024 (Eastern):

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1:00 pm

Introductions to the Evolutio, Cisco, and Disney various teams

1:15 pm

Virtual and in-person classroom begins for instructor-led training exploring OTel and why it matters for Observability & User Experience

1:45 pm

Lab portion begins

3:15 pm

Lab portion ends, wrap-up with questions, discussion, takeaways

3:45 pm

Depart, beat the traffic home

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Please note in the comments section if you'd like to attend virtually.

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Disney OTel Workshop Location & Speakers:

Presenter

Author

Laura Vetter

CTO & Co-founder, USA, Evolutio

Laura Vetter is a subject matter expert in methodology and tooling for Monitoring, SRE, and Observability, namely with Cisco Observability, Splunk, AppDynamics, and other Performance Monitoring Tools in the competitive landscape. She is also well-versed in monitoring global SAP ERP landscapes and works with DevOps teams on governance for more secure and quality software deployments. With over 20 years of hands-on experience working in IT Ops and leading large teams, she is exceptionally skilled in understanding how those tools can meet the visibility needs of application-driven, Fortune 500 organizations.

As a CTO and technology transformation visionary, Laura leads strategy for alerting and business-relevant dashboarding demands at scale. She leads a team that helps clients roadmap an observability strategy to mature along the curve, wherever they are in the journey.

Forrest Smietankski

Full Stack Observability Architect, USA, Evolutio

Forrest joined Evolutio in 2022 as a Consultant in the Observability practice area, bringing a decade of experience in software engineering, cloud architectures, and solving large scale enterprise issues. Wearing multiple hats during a long career at Liberty Mutual; Forrest brings financial and insurance industry experience to Evolutio customers. Forrest loves working with customers on solving complex problems, and is excited to collaborate with the other Evolutio practice areas, particularly in DevOps/ Automation and data science by applying ML and AI models to customer problems.