Speaker: Oli Lane
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Engineering Team Lead @Gearset, Focusing on Engineering Culture, Observability, and Platform Reliability
Oli is an Engineering Team Lead and self-described "Jack of at least some trades." A fixture at Gearset for over ten years, he has ridden the wave from a scrappy 7-person startup to a 350+ employee scale-up.
Along the way, he has gained deep experience across both product and infrastructure teams, with a particular interest in the sociotechnical side of engineering. Currently, Oli focuses on platform engineering and observability, building the culture and tools needed for high-performing teams and reliable systems.
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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.
Date
Monday Mar 16 / 11:45AM GMT ( 50 minutes )
Location
Whittle (3rd Fl.)
