Observability practitioners in the Bay Area have long needed a consistent space to share, learn, and connect—and we're here to change that with our partners at Grafana.

This meetup dives into OpenTelemetry’s evolution for Mobile and Web, covering instrumentation hurdles, client-side data strategies, and the risks of siloing RUM from backend telemetry.

🎉 What's in it for you?

- Open standards, honest conversations, and a community-first approach to modern observability
- Hear insights from peers in the observability space

- Meet and network with like-minded people over food and drinks

Talk 1 - Joe LoCascio - Embrace - Observability Nerd

• Joe has over 15 years of experience in the monitoring and observability space. He was a champion for W3C TraceContext and New Relic’s involvement in OpenTelemetry & their Distributed Tracing product. He now resides at Embrace.
• In this talk, you’ll learn about: End-user focused SLOs, Observability challenges in handing real user data, the organizational shift to client-focused observability

Talk 2 - Andrew Chee - Grafana Labs - Solutions Engineer

• Andrew has over 10 years of experience in the observability space working at New Relic, Lightstep, and now Grafana
• In this talk, you’ll learn about: Performance profiling, production observability at scale, correlation & analysis challenges

Did we mention free food 🍕and refreshments 🍺? 

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