Alex Chilcott
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Talks I've Given
Alex is a software engineer with 13+ years of full stack engineering experience.
Alex is a software engineer with 13+ years of full stack engineering experience. He works at TrueLayer, currently using Rust to build reliable, scalable and maintainable systems. He lives in a London suburb with his wife and 2 year old son.
Talks I've Given
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Test Those Metrics! Our Black-Box Approach for Observability Testing
Featuring Alex Chilcott
This talk will show how, by formalising the behaviour we require from our services in order to export telemetry data to tools like Prometheus (for metrics) or Honeycomb (for distributed tracing), we make use of automated tests to build confidence in the observability of our system.
programming-languages degradation observability automated-tests honeycomb prometheus testing rust