The most efficient way to observe application behavior relies on metrics, key/value pairs of numerical data. Capturing and processing metrics can help you identify and respond to potential issues before they escalate and cause more serious problems, but doing that begs a few questions: What data points should you gather? Do custom metrics support SRE? Attendees will leave the talk with an understanding of how application metrics align with monitoring methods in a System Reliability Engineering context.
Erin Schnabel (@ebullientworks) is a Java Champion, developer, advocate, and maker of things at Red Hat. She has 20 years under her belt, as a developer, technical leader, architect and evangelist, and she strongly prefers being up to her elbows in code. Erin learns (and teaches) by coding ridiculous things, like “Monster Combat”, an application that makes monsters fight each other to explore application metrics; “Game On!” (https://gameontext.org), a text adventure game for microservices; and a reactive workshop (https://github.com/IBM/reactive-code-workshop) that munges ”The Jabberwocky” to gain an understanding of how reactive operators work.
