Amber is a Senior Field Engineer at Grafana Labs, where she focuses on observability solution architecture, building and maintaining complex demo environments and observability workshops, and provides expertise for customer solutions requiring metrics, logs, and Grafana observability tooling. 

Amber has a background in infrastructure and monitoring, primarily working in Customer facing roles for Solution Architecture and Customer Success Engineering at Pivotal/VMware, Sysdig, and Grafana.

Amber is based out of Chicago, IL and has always called the midwest home. In her free time she enjoys exploring the surrounding city and nearby nature, and is an avid cyclist.

 

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To accrue additional technical debt, turn to page 52! A choose-your-own-adventure system design case study.

Designing complex, integrated systems is a challenge with so many products available in the cloud native open source world. This talk aims to discuss a team’s recent experience building out a new system, and the choices made to build an automatable, scalable, and stable environment.This talk will be delivered in a “choose your own adventure” format, where we discuss the different OSS options that were considered and their implementation. As we work with the audience through different options, we will encounter the benefits/consequences of our choices.

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