Alex Koutmos
Author of the PromEx library and the Twitter Elixir Tip series
Alex Koutmos is currently a Senior Software Engineer working at Boulevard. He has been working professionally with Elixir since 2016 and was hooked on the BEAM since reading Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić in 2015. When Alex is not programming or reading books, he is playing video games with his two daughters.
Alex Koutmos is also the author of a number of Elixir blog posts that he publishes on https://akoutmos.com. He also publishes regular Elixir Tips on Twitter under the #myelixirstatus hashtag. He has also maintains a few packages on Hex.pm and is currently obsessed with taking Elixir application observability to the next level with his latest project PromEx.
Past Activities
Code BEAM V America
11.05 - 11.45
BEAM + Prometheus + Grafana = Observability Heaven
Learn about the importance of application/system observability and how it can impact both the engineering and business sides of the house. Also learn about some of the phenomenal community tooling that we have available to us on the BEAM and how to setup PromEx to leverage all that telemetry goodness.
OBJECTIVE
The goal of this presentation is to give some background on the importance of application and system observability along with some best practices/anti-patterns. Next, we'll dive into some ecosystem observability tools available on the BEAM. Lastly we'll take PromEx for a test drive and see how easy it is to instrument our applications and extract metrics from all our telemetry supported libraries.
AUDIENCE
Anyone running production systems in Elixir who wants to step up the observability of their applications/systems.