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Ken Finnigan

OpenTelemetry Architect
Lumigo
Country or state 
United States (Massachusetts)
Available to 
Global
City 
Pembroke
Fee 
Languages 
English
Volunteer
Yes
Timezone 
America/New_York

Personal Details

Bio

Ken is the OpenTelemetry Architect for Lumigo, a contributor to OpenTelemetry specification and Java SDK, and a member of CNCF TAG Observability. Ken has been a consultant and software engineer for over 25 years with enterprises throughout the world. Ken has presented on distributed tracing, microservices, and other related topics at conferences like CodeOne (JavaOne), RedHat Summit, Devoxx UK, among others. Ken is also the author of several books, including “Reactive Systems in Java”, “Kubernetes Native Microservices with Quarkus, and MicroProfile” and “Enterprise Java Microservices”.

Current position (1)

OpenTelemetry Architect

Lumigo

Degrees (1)
BSc (Information Systems)
University of NSW
1993 to 1995

Presentations

Past talks (8)
CNCF Observability TAG Updates
KubeCon NA
Chicago, USA
November 7, 2023
Bringing Reactive to Enterprise Java Developers
Code One
San Francisco, USA
September 4, 2019
What developers need to know about MicroProfile, Enterprise Java/JakartaEE, JBoss EAP and roadmap
Red Hat Summit
Boston, USA
May 6, 2019
Distant Past of Microservices
VoxxedDays Microservices
Paris, France
October 28, 2018
Thorntail - A Micro Implementation of Eclipse MicroProfile
VoxxedDays Microservices
Paris, France
October 28, 2018
ServiceMesh with Istio and Eclipse MicroProfile
JDK.IO
Copenhagen, Denmark
June 10, 2018
Eclipse MicroProfile with WildFly Swarm
Red Hat Summit
San Francisco, USA
May 6, 2018
Reactive Stream Processing with WildFly Swarm and Apache Kafka
Java One
San Francisco, USA
October 23, 2017
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WildFly Swarm on OpenShift, by Ken Finnigan | Red Hat Developer
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KubeCon + CloudNative North America 2023: Observability TAG Updates: Enhancing Kub...
OpenDevHour: Observability: The what, why, and how!
JavaOne 2015 - Ken Finnigan - WildFly Swarm and Netflix OSS: The Perfect Union? | Red Hat Developer
Decomposing A Java EE Monolith Into WildFly Swarm Microservices (Ken Finnigan)
JavaOne 2015 - Ken Finnigan - Java EE 7 Applications as a Microservice with WildFly Swarm | Red Hat Developer
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Books & Articles (4)

Reactive Systems in Java
O'Reilly,
2021
Kubernetes Native Microservices with Quarkus and MicroProfile
Manning,
2021
Enterprise Java Microservices
Manning,
2018
Why Kubernetes Native instead of cloud native?

Expertise (8)

Technology
Microservices AppDev in the Cloud Cloud and Microservices Containers OpenTelemetry Observability distributed tracing
Recommendations
Why choose me? 

I've presented on microservices and MicroProfile at JavaOne, RedHat Summit, JDK.io, Devoxx UK.

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