Research Triangle Software Symposium
August 23 - 25, 2013
Service Discovery and Monitoring
Sunday - Aug 25 4:00 PM EDT - Raleigh
Ever get a bad URL, dubious credentials and out dated documentation with the expectation that you will productively consume a service in your application? Before you start coding in your production stack there are reasons to use simple tools to poke around a new API. We'll cover the best tools for the job some you know and others you might not.
Besides investigating a service before you write code the outcome of that exercise also pays dividends at different points in the project. The artifacts from this discovery process also come in handy when problem solving production issues. When you get the pieces in place you end up with something that feels a lot like unit tests but for the operational monitoring of the production systems you depend on.
Demian Neidetcher
Sr. Engineer at Time Warner Cable
About Demian Neidetcher
Demian Neidetcher is a Senior Engineer at Time Warner Cable working on customer portals and getting television content to IP devices. He first got the programming bug staying up late nights with his Commodore64.
He has been professionally writing software for over 15 years. Most of his experience is with JVM languages (Java, Scala, Groovy) in the telecommunications domain doing things like inventory systems for a long-haul carrier, integrating conferencing software and routing VoIP traffic including geo-spatial 911 call routing. He has worked for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups. In every environment Demian has looked for pragmatic approaches, solutions and process to get teams delivering software that benefits users.