Ep. #41, Organizing Conferences with Aaron Aldrich of Red Hat

Conference Talks

Red Hat: Observability & Refactoring in a Java Monolith: A Diary of Digging Out

This talk covers hard lessons learned by a small team at Red Hat over the past few years as they struggled to refactor a monolithic service to a more scalable and resilient architecture. In this talk, John covers the lessons they've learned about observability, production support effectiveness, and the cost of bad or inadequate solutions. They made more than a few mistakes like repeatedly under-appreciating the value of operational features and support infrastructure, and falling prey to the rush of shipping features while neglecting their service's operational health.

Conference Talks

Honeycomb Battle Scars: Lessons From Honeycomb Customers

This session is a roundtable discussion with speakers you've heard from throughout the conference. Each speaker will share their one biggest pain point they've had, lesson learned, or thing they wish they would have known about Honeycomb and observability sooner. Listen to this session to hear practical lessons that can help you and your team avoid developing some of these same scars the hard way.