Media Alert: SignalFx to Keynote and Present at O'Reilly's Velocity Conference

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 21, 2017) - Velocity (Booth 307) - SignalFx, a leader in monitoring and operational intelligence for the cloud, today announced its speaker lineup at the O'Reilly Velocity Conference, which takes place at the San Jose Convention Center June 21-22. SignalFx co-founder and CTO Phillip Liu will be delivering a keynote address on how to create an evolutionary culture in software development and remove engineering friction. SignalFx's Arijit Mukherji will present a session about best practices monitoring in a next-generation infrastructure. SignalFx will also be exhibiting and demonstrating its innovative solutions for monitoring and operational intelligence for the cloud in the Exhibit Hall. The Velocity conference will bring together the foremost experts in modern systems to share real-world best practices for building, deploying, and running complex, distributed applications and systems.

Keynote

Who: Phillip Liu, CTO and co-founder of SignalFx
With more than 20 years experience in distributed systems, Phil is known for his work leading development of Facebook's infrastructure-as-a-service platform and several key, web-scale application management solutions.
When: Thursday, June 22, 2017 from 9:25 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Where: The Grand Ballroom
Title: Removing engineering friction: Creating an evolutionary culture
Why: Attendees will learn:

• How to create a culture that promotes many possible ways to address given challenges and surfaces novel approaches, which may have never arisen otherwise
• How to enable your team to build the best possible product they can, given the resources and constraints at play for different organizations

Session

Who: Arijit Mukherji, software engineer at SignalFx
When: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 from 2:10 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Where:  Room LL20 C
Title: Lessons and best practices learned from monitoring next-generation infrastructure
Why: Attendees will learn:

• New challenges in monitoring modern dynamic infrastructure and distributed systems
• Real-world examples demonstrating what these challenges are
• New approaches and system capabilities that have helped overcome these challenges

Exhibit Hall:

When: Wednesday, June 21: 10:50 a.m.-5:15 p.m., 5:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m. (Reception) and Thursday, June 22: 10:50 a.m.-3:40 p.m.
Where: Exhibit Hall, Booth 307
What: Detailed demonstrations of how SignalFx helps organizations adopting DevOps for cloud deployments by allowing them to "move fast without breaking things". Demonstrations will include showing how to monitor containers and microservices at scale, how to deliver useful alerts in a dynamic cloud infrastructure, and how SignalFx makes it easy for enterprises to scale their monitoring across their organizations with shared templates and models for monitoring dashboards and alert conditions.

About SignalFx
SignalFx is the leader in monitoring & operational intelligence for the cloud. By delivering real-time visibility into every component of cloud applications, SignalFx ensures organizations deliver upon the business promise of digital transformation. We provide the operational intelligence required for today's elastic architectures through monitoring specifically designed for microservices and containers, powerful and proactive alerting that delivers the operational intelligence to manage cloud apps, and a solution ready for enterprise deployment at scale. SignalFx is used by enterprises across industries including Acquia, HubSpot, Kayak, and Yelp. SignalFx is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures.