Dave McAllister
As the open source technical evangelist for NGINX, Dave works with developers, architects, and DevOps to solve large-scale distributed systems challenges using open source and its innovations. Open systems and open source have been Dave's passion since the early days of Linux through today's OpenTelemetry and observability.
Montreal 2024 sessions
NGINX Unit: Serving Server-Side WASM with Web Awareness
English session - Beginner
Server-side WebAssembly (Wasm) may prove to be a more efficient method to deliver truly portable applications. With a move to the server side, we must be concerned with interactions with the web environment.
Open Source NGINX Unit is an application runtime for web apps and APIs, handling the HTTP(S) front end, request routing, and coupled to Wasm's linear memory byte streams. Find out how NGINX Unit is becoming the runtime platform for FaaS.
The Anatomy of a Distributed Trace
English session - Beginner
Observability and OpenTelemetry have created awareness of distributed tracing. But what is it/ We'll investigate the distributed trace from the initial point via monitoring, dropping into RED. We'll deconstruct it across its parts, describing the importance of trace and spans. We'll discuss some of the potential data impacts that can leave false clues. You'll know why distributed tracing is important and what makes OpenTelemetry the right choice
