Observability For Java Devs

Observability For Java Devs - 2023 Edition

Track: Cloud Technology

Abstract

As applications move to containers and migrate to the cloud, they become ever more complex, and it's increasingly important to monitor, analyze, and diagnose their behaviour. Observability is a new way of thinking about monitoring and understanding your applications. It’s supported by a growing range of open source tools and standards - part of the new wave of technologies that modern developers need to go fully Cloud Native. Join Ben Evans to get the state of the fundamentals of Observability in 2023. You'll learn how to achieve observability in Java using OpenTelemetry, the emerging Open Standard for Observability, and we'll meet several other related OSS libraries and tools (such as Jaeger) along the way.

Ben Evans

Ben Evans is an author, architect and educator. He is currently Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. Previously he was Lead Architect for Instrumentation at New Relic, and co-founded jClarity, a performance tools startup acquired by Microsoft. He has also worked as Chief Architect for Listed Derivatives at Deutsche Bank and as Senior Technical Instructor for Morgan Stanley. He served for 6 years on the Java Community Process Executive Committee, helping define new Java standards. He is a Java Champion and 3-time JavaOne Rockstar Speaker. Ben is the author of six books, including "Optimizing Java", the new editions of “Java in a Nutshell” and the recently-updated “The Well-Grounded Java Developer” and his technical articles are read by thousands of developers every month. Ben is a regular speaker and educator on topics such as the Java platform, systems architecture, performance and concurrency for companies and conferences all over the world (pandemic permitting).