Request Lab by Friday February 7th, 2025
Lab Environment Request | T-Mobile Observability Workshop for Leveraging OpenTelemetry
By Fri 2/7/25, Fill Out This Form for a Splunk O11y Cloud Lab Environment
As a follow-up to the training, by Friday, February 7th, we invite T-Mobile to request an OTel (Splunk O11y Cloud) lab environment.
Original lab request comments for the training on 1/31/25: On Friday, January 31st we hosted the OpenTelemetry training for T-Mobile. Join Evolutio & Splunk for a virtual training exploring topics related to OpenTelemetry for Observability and user experience. For attendees who will work with OTel, please fill out this form for us to provision you a training lab environment to get hands-on with OTel and Splunk O11y.
Who SHOULD request a hands-on lab: anyone with a software development or coding background, skills to edit JSON, site reliability engineers, application engineers
Who SHOULD NOT ask for a lab: anyone without a coding background, or folks who will not work with instrumenting software applications with OTel (the instructor will lead the lab demo for you to watch)
You'll walk away with how to instrument OTel, basic set-up with OTel-as-a-Service thinking at T-Mobile, and then learn what to do if you need to customize an instrumentation.
Original 1/31/25 Agenda (Pacific):
9:00 am
T-Mobile welcome and introductions to the Evolutio and Splunk teams
9:10 am
Why OTel? Why now? Splunk AppDynamics vs Splunk Observability (O11y) Cloud, the direction for T-Mobile; Review of OTel Signals (MELT Framework), Instrumentation, and why it matters for Observability & user experience
9:45 am
Live lab environment OR follow along and watch the demo - exploring OpenTelemetry
11:15 am
Q&A with Evolutio experts on OTel (representatives from business, those with Splunk certifications, and knowledge of OTel as an open-source standard); Wrap-up & key takeaways
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.
David Cornette
Solutions Architect - Applications Support Availability Tools at T-Mobile
Dave leads the Applications Support Availability Tools team, including application monitoring and Splunk AppDynamics and Splunk Observability (O11y) Cloud, with almost 12-years of experience at T-Mobile.
Jonathan Silberlicht
Sr. Director Enterprise Solutions Delivery at T-Mobile
Jonathan is the Sr. Director Enterprise Solutions Delivery, having spent sevent years T-Mobile. Jonathan's team builds complete end-to-end solutions for T-Mobile customers, using both in-house developed applications and vendor solutions. We enable efficiency in T-Mobile's workforce, managing ITSM tooling, and helps our customers create better visibility of their applications using logs, events, and metrics with Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk Observability (O11y)Cloud.
