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Thomas Césaré-Herriau

Observing Elixir microservices at Brex

Thomas' coding journey started as a kid in an attic, designing and building web based games in PHP and Flash. Now, at Brex, his main interests are empowering other teams to build well designed, reliable and highly observable systems by providing powerful abstractions and primitives.

Past Activities

Thomas Césaré-Herriau / Vamsi Chitters
Code BEAM SF
06 Mar 2020
11.25 - 12.10

Observability for Elixir microservices

This talk provides a high-level overview of observability at Brex for our microservice architecture in Elixir. In particular, it details the custom libraries and frameworks we use as core primitives to best understand how our systems behave, as well as the tooling we use to surface metrics, logs and traces to developers.

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS

Observability

Elixir

Fintech

OBJECTIVES

The objective of this talk is to provide an overview of how we think about observability at Brex, as well as the challenges we faced and lessons we learned from building a robust observability stack for Elixir microservices.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Elixir Enthusiasts, Observability Engineers, Backend Engineers