Add the three pillars of Observability to your Python App

Learnings from debugging complex distributed systems

I was at PyCon Ireland 2018 this year and lucky to have my talk on Observability accepted.

The title of the talk was “Adding the three pillars of Observability to your Python app” and was aimed at an intermediate Python audience defining observability, monitoring as well as highlighting various tools …

Sat 31 Mar 2018

tags: python queues celery bottlenecks

Celery Database Bottlenecks

The joys of performance whack-a-mole with distributed systems

I recently had to refactor some code which uses MongoDB and Celery to store results from a scraping process to a MongoDB collection. It involved a number of whack a mole type performance problems due to the distributed nature of the system, and indeed was leading to the Linux out …

Eoin Brazil is a computer scientist, UX architect, technical services engineer (similar to SRE), author, teacher and data scientist. He has worked in various technical, leadership and educational roles within MongoDB Engineering. He currently works in the MongoDB Education team.A range of his work can be found on Github. Information on his co-authored book MongoDB: The Definitive Guide 3rd edition from O'Reilly. You can find his talks online as well as his CV.

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