Dan Barker

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Dan Barker
Kansas City, Missouri

Website: http://danbarker.codes
Email: dan@danbarker.codes

Dan spent 12 years in the military as a fighter jet mechanic before transitioning to a career in technology as a software engineer and then a manager. He was the Chief Architect at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners leading their technical and cultural transformation. He's now leading RSA Archer as their Chief Architect in their cloud migration and conversion to SaaS. Dan is also an organizer of DevOps KC and the DevOpsDays KC conference.

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I included the logging aspect of Elasticsearch in the log aggregation chapter. I also state in there that I disagree that a logging system can effectively process time-series data without a separate storage system. Influx gets the closest with their hybrid creation, but it can still produce edge cases due to its storage format and consistency.

This is focused on groups outside of engineering. I tend to believe most orgs don't need a separate performance engineering team as performance is the responsibility of the product team doing the development. There may be a team that specializes in performance and the knowledge transfer thereof, but they shouldn't be responsible for a product's performance.