Speaker: Julian Wreford
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Team Lead of Operability Team @Gearset, Software Engineer Turned Accidental SRE
Julian Wreford is an engineering team lead at Gearset where he leads the team responsible for all things site reliability. After starting as a developer, he quickly became interested in operability and has helped lead the growth of observability culture and incident response at Gearset as the company has scaled from small teams to large enterprises. He is passionate about developer ownership throughout the software lifecycle and enjoys empowering developers to better understand and debug the code they write when it is running at scale.
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Session
Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry
Queues are the backbone of scalable, asynchronous systems, but they can easily create a tangled web of complexity. When things slow down, the bottleneck could be anywhere, from producer lag to consumer exhaustion, and standard metrics often fail to show the full picture.