Portfolio

I wrote about how The Future of Monitoring is Agentless on InfoQ! I discussed the history of monitoring agents, why they're problematic, and innovations in monitoring and observability that will re...

I explored some of my thoughts around SLOs and some ways to achieve organizational buy-in around them in Chicken Soup for the SLO on DevOps.com

I wrote about Distributed Tracing in OpenTelemetry for The New Stack.

I wrote about the importance, and evolution, of Distributed Tracing for The New Stack!

I wrote about The Importance of Feedback Loops in Distributed Systems for The New Stack

I wrote about Why Observability Needs to Stay Weird for The New Stack.

I spoke with Jonan Scheffler on Observy McObserveface about OpenTelemetry's Tracing 1.0 milestone, and what it means for the future of o11y.

I wrote about why Virtual Events Suck for my blog, and some thoughts on what we can do about it.

I wrote some thoughts on The Commodification of DevOps for my blog, and discussed how we can think of the SRE movement in the context of DevOps, Agile, and other trends.

My book, Distributed Tracing in Practice, was published by O'Reilly Media!

Organized and produced Deserted Island DevOps 2021. Check it out on YouTube!

Appeared on TFIR to discuss the centrality of observability to the rest of the DevOps world.

I joined the upstanding citizens of the DevOps Speakeasy to discuss two of my favorite topics: Observability, and Laziness.

I spoke to the fine folks at Greater Than Code about my experiences producing Deserted Island DevOps 2020, and some of the lessons I've learned about virtual events.

Helping to build a better OpenTelemetry website and documentation experience for the world!