Reaching Operational Excellence using OpenTelemetry, Riccardo Lippolis and Alexander Chatzizacharias

Reaching Operational Excellence using OpenTelemetry

After months of working on a new product, it is finally time to deploy it to your production environment and start making money! But there is a problem…

How will you monitor your production environment? How will you know if your application crashes? And when it does, how quickly can you identify the error, fix it, and deploy the patch? Where will you collect your logs, and how will you structure them so that you can easily find the one line that holds the key to solving all your problems?

In this talk, Alexander and Riccardo will explore OpenTelemetry and demonstrate how you can use standardized APIs to ensure your logging is flawless. They will show you how to obtain amazing metrics on your services and how to trace calls through your entire service landscape effortlessly if anything goes wrong. All this will allow you to reach a point where you can sit back and relax, confident that your services are running excellently.

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Riccardo is an inquiring and experienced Java / Kotlin Developer with a passion for solving complex problems. Known by his colleagues as the Kotlin Hipster (probably because of the beard), he is the go-to guy for everything Kotlin-related. He works for JDriven, where he shares his passion and drive with other enthusiasts.

Riccardo Lippolis has spoken at several conferences, including (but not limited to): JFall (2016, rated #1), DevoxxUK (2017 & 2021), JavaLand (2017), Code and Comedy (2017, keynote speaker), NextBuild (2017), Spring I/O (2018), GeeCON Kraków (2019), and JavaZone (2021).

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Alexander Chatzizacharias, a 34-year-old Software Engineer at JDriven, holds dual Dutch and Greek nationality. He earned his master’s degree in Game Studies from the University of Amsterdam, where he discovered his passion for gamification and software engineering. Alexander aims to bridge the gap between game development and software engineering, believing that both industries have much to learn from each other. He is dedicated to integrating technologies and methodologies from both fields. Additionally, he enjoys experimenting with new technologies and cutting-edge sdk's.

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