Zack Kayser

Ethan Gunderson, Principal Software Engineer focused on performance and observability, and Zack Kayser, Senior Software Engineer experienced in running large-scale Elixir systems, discuss telemetry and observability at Cars.com. They cover scaling Elixir for high traffic, tracing and spans, LiveView WebSocket challenges, sampling and storage trade-offs, OpenTelemetry adoption, and practical steps for getting telemetry working in apps.