Lynn Root, Spotify
Do you maintain a Rube Goldberg-like service? Perhaps it's highly distributed? Or you recently walked onto a team with an unfamiliar codebase? Have you noticed your service responds slower than molasses? This talk walks you through how to pinpoint bottlenecks, approaches, and tools to make improvements, and make you seem like the hero! All in a day's work.
The talk will describe various types of tracing a web service, including black & white box tracing, tracing distributed systems, as well as various tools and external services available to measure performance. I also present a few different rabbit holes to dive into when trying to improve your service's performance.
Lynn Root, Spotify
Lynn Root is an SRE at Spotify in NYC, with historical issues of using her last name as her username, and the resident FOSS evangelist. She is also a global leader of PyLadies and former Vice Chair of the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors. When her hands are not on a keyboard, they are usually holding a bass guitar or a paintbrush.
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author = {Lynn Root},
title = {Tracing, Fast and Slow: Digging into and Improving Your Web Service{\textquoteright}s Performance},
year = {2019},
address = {Brooklyn, NY},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}