Heartbeats and Healthchecks at the Edge of Human and Compute

In this session, I dissect how we built an edge computing device into a conference badge, while enabling it to reliably report metrics on the (badge) wearer to a health check and monitoring system.

The talk focuses on the software challenges of edge computing. I specifically look at "noisy environments", network isolation, and trust barriers to illustrate what goes into the "dos" and "do nots" of building reliable workload orchestration.