Observability, Monitoring, and Platform Engineering with Abigail Bangser
Quality Bits
05/01/23
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What's the difference between observability and monitoring? What's a telemetry? Why do they matter, and how could we use them more beneficially?
Abby Bangser shares her journey from a QA to a platform engineer in this episode. We discuss the similarities between testing and infrastructure-related areas like site reliability engineering. In addition, Abby explains observability and shares some sound advice regarding implementing it.
Find Abby on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser/
- Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@abangser
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/a_bangser
Mentions and resources:
- Abby's talk on measuring quality in production at Ministry of Testing (free sign up is enough to access it): https://www.ministryoftesting.com/talks/567372c2?s_id=14698896
- Abby's course on Test Automation University - Introduction to Observability for Test Automation: https://testautomationu.applitools.com/observability-for-test-automation/
- ThoughtWorks graph showing different roles and overlaps by Laura Paterson
- Some more fun readings suggested by Abby:
- https://oschvr.com/posts/what-id-like-as-sre/
- https://blog.alicegoldfuss.com/how-to-get-into-sre/
- https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/08/13/root-cause-of-failure-root-cause-of-success/
- https://www.learningfromincidents.io/
- https://kratix.io
- cncf.io/blog/2023/04/11/announcing-a-white-paper-on-platforms-for-cloud-native-computing/
- https://www.syntasso.io/post/the-12-platform-challenges-recap
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In this episode, Aurimas shares valuable insights about what working with data means. Is it just a trend to be data-driven, or, a reality? Are all the data products big data products? Who and how should help define good business success metrics? Tune in to learn the answers to these questions and much more.
Find Aurimas on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aurimas-griciunas/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aurimas_Gr
- SwirlAI newsletter: https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com
Mentions and resources:
- Chat GPT: https://chat.openai.com/
- Tools to help with data quality:
- Great Expectations: https://greatexpectations.io
- dbt-expectations: https://github.com/calogica/dbt-expectations
- On techniques for testing Machine Learning Models:
- A/B testing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing
- Multi-arm bandits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
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- Website: https://qualitybits.tech/
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May 15, 2023
•35m
User experience (UX) research is a field that can help us prevent issues before they take place. Greta Ruskiene knows this first-hand: she used to work as a QA and made a career shift to UX with time.
In this episode, we discuss UX research, the art of question-asking, and how frequently, even when we truly believe we know our users, we may not.
Find Greta on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greta-ru%C5%A1kien%C4%97-53183a55/
Mentions and resources:
- WomenGoTech mentoring program: https://womengotech.com/
- On sunk-cost fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
- Figma: https://www.figma.com/
- Paul C. Nutt - "Why Decisions Fail"
- Conferences:
- Figma's conference: https://config.figma.com/
- Zeplin conferences: https://zeplin.io/harmony/
- HFI conference: https://hfi.training/na/thinkers-invited/events
- Google UX design certificate: https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalworkshop-eu/course/gccs-ux-design
- UX research repository: https://condens.io/ux-research-repository/
- WIX UX mentorship: https://www.wixuxmentorship.com/
- Meetups in Lithuania:
- Fresh meetups: https://www.facebook.com/freshmeetups/
- UX Salon: https://www.meetup.com/ux-salon-vilnius/
- UX Writer Talks: https://www.meetup.com/wix-vilnius-ux-writer-talks/
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