Techniques and Tools for a Coherent Discussion about Performance in Complex Architectures

Most applications today have separate networked services measuring in the tens to hundreds; especially with the growing popularity of micro services. Crossing the boundary between these services often means a change in team and even a change in programming languages. In this session I will discuss the challenges this presents, why it is important to have a single engineering conversation about performance and how we can accomplish this.

Theo founded Circonus in 2010 where he now serves as Founder and CEO. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in computer science researching resource allocation techniques in distributed systems during four years of post-graduate work. In 1997, Theo founded OmniTI, which has established itself as the go-to source for organizations facing today's most challenging scalability, performance and security problems. He was also the principal architect of the Momentum MTA, which is now the flagship product of Sparkpost.

A widely respected industry thought leader, Theo is the author of Scalable Internet Architectures (Sams) and a frequent speaker at worldwide IT conferences. Theo is a computer scientist in every respect. Theo is a member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM. He serves on the editorial board of the ACM's Queue Magazine and sits on the ACM Practitioner Board.