2019-05 Real World Metrics with Spring Boot and Micrometer
Channel: Toronto Java Users Group
Date: 2019-06-05

Presented by Victor Szoltysek

Github: https://github.com/vicsz/micrometer-demo

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/VictorSzoltysek/real-world-metrics-with-spring-boot-and-micrometer

While the implementation and understanding of benefits from application logging is now common in our industry, effective application metrics still remains a gap and frequent omission.

We will go over reasons for incorporating metrics in your next Java project in addition to logging and explore the functionality of the Spring Boot Micrometer solution, as well as common monitoring solutions such as Prometheus, New Relic, DataDog, and Humio.

Participants will watch a live coding session transforming a plain old java application to use micrometer and wired up to monitoring solutions such as Graphs, Dashboards, and Alerts.

Victor works at Pivotal as a Platform Architect helping clients with cloud transformations, DevOps enablement, and effective Agile software development. He has a long history of software consulting and effectively putting-out digital fires around corporate America. He has been able to successfully turn around some projects, seen others fail miserably, and, regrettably, has personally witnessed close to one billion dollars in project write-offs. Throughout his career and dozens of post-mortems, he’s acquired a very unique set of skills, including a keen premonition of project failures before they happen, and insights to how they could easily have been avoided.