Modern distributed systems fail in messy, non-obvious ways: a small latency spike in one microservice can cascade through queues, sidecars, gateways, and control planes, yet traditional logging and isolated dashboards rarely reveal the true root cause. In this talk, Sneha will share how Microsoft tackled this while building the telemetry and observability platform behind Azure Container Apps and the Aspire Dashboard, used across thousands of customer environments. They standardized on OpenTelemetry to unify traces, metrics, and logs across heterogeneous workloads, invested in consistent...
Sneha Parthasarathy
Software Engineer
Microsoft
Sneha Parthasarathy is a software engineer at Microsoft with deep experience in building and scaling modern, containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Go. Sneha specializes in microservices architecture, distributed systems, and driving large-scale app modernization efforts. Her work spans everything from designing resilient services and orchestrating workloads in the cloud to implementing observability best practices. She is passionate about making systems not just work, but work well — with real-time insights using OpenTelemetry (OTEL), monitoring, and metrics that empower teams to build confidently. Sneha thrives in fast-moving environments where reliability, scalability, and developer velocity are critical — and is always exploring new ways to improve system health, user experience, and team productivity.