Infosec & OpenTelemetry

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

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Featuring:

• Austin Parker – Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Interview

• [Austin on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/aparker.io
• Deserted Island Devops

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:52)

https://sentry.io/

3. Pre-show (00:04:17)

4. Welcome Austin Parker (00:14:13)

5. Software kids (00:14:37)

6. Deserted Island DevOPS (00:16:41)

7. Conference schedules (00:18:40)

8. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:21:22)

https://fly.io/

9. Password security (00:24:57)

10. Real world practicality (00:27:26)

11. Nuances at scale (00:30:53)

12. Tools make borders (00:35:35)

13. Introducing OpenTelemetry (00:39:55)

14. Sponsor: Timescale (00:45:36)

https://www.timescale.com

15. What OpenTelemetry is doing (00:48:05)

16. Grabbing data securely (00:50:45)

17. Challenges building OpenTelemetry (00:52:47)

18. System and app telemetry overlap (00:54:29)

19. aparker.io and running your own website (01:01:22)

20. Socials (01:07:16)

21. Outro (01:07:51)