Hi, I'm Ines Panker.
I'm a senior staff engineer at Sleuth, a SaaS observability platform (the first engineer they hired, de-facto architect), and the person who just gave this talk.
Almost two decades of building software.
Multi-tenant architecture. Circuit breakers guarding 2-3 million third-party API calls a day across about 40 external APIs. Real-time anomaly detection for hundreds of clients.
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How We Lie to Each Other with Data
Of course, we learned statistics. We went to university, there was a course, there was an exam, we passed it.
But we don’t really use it at work… when writing code, except…. that we love proving a point with a good chart. That would be a harmless quirk if we were bakers, but our code now decides who gets a loan, whose claim gets approved, when the doctor sees you.
Software engineers have somehow become some of the most consequential decision-makers in society, and we cope with it by pretending we’re just typing.”