How Micrometer Happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jonathan Schneider
(@jon_k_schneider) about: Spinnaker's role in continuous delivery
and multi-cloud deployments, multi-cloud architectures,
Micrometer's origin and design as a vendor-neutral metrics
abstraction library, comparison of micrometer to other metrics
solutions like opentelemetry and MicroProfile Metrics, exploration
of Micrometer's architecture including registries and meter types,
debate on static vs dependency-injected registries, explanation of
distribution summaries and their use cases, consideration of unit
testing metrics, examination of Micrometer's support for multiple
monitoring systems simultaneously, discussion of meter filters for
customizing metric output, reflection on the trade-offs between
language support and monitoring system support in metrics
libraries, insights into the separation of application and runtime
metrics, Jonathan's experience developing Micrometer at Netflix and
Pivotal, current usage of Micrometer and prometheus in Modern's
multi-tenant SaaS architecture, comparison of serverless and
EC2-based deployments for different use cases, OpenRewrite's
growing popularity in Europe

Jonathan Schneider on twitter: @jon_k_schneider