Phil Wilkins

Phil Wilkins has spent more than 30 years in the software industry, with broad experience in businesses and environments from multinationals to software startups and consumer organizations to consultancy. He has worked with household names and has been part of award-winning teams. He started as a developer on real-time, mission-critical solutions and worked his way up through technical and development leadership roles, primarily in Java-based environments. Along the way, Phil became TOGAF-certified. Phil now works for Oracle as a cloud architect and evangelist specializing in cloud-native development, APIs, and integration technologies and is involved with the development of a new generation of SaaS products.

Phil was a peer reviewer of books for several publishers before coauthoring several titles on API and integration, as well as Logging in Action, which is the partner to this book. Outside his daily commitments, Phil is an active blogger and contributor to websites such as Software Daily, DZone, and InfoQ. He has made presentations physically and virtually at conferences in the United Kingdom and around the world.

books by Phil Wilkins

Logs and Telemetry
  • October 2024
  • ISBN 9781633437470
  • 392 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white

Logs and Telemetry shows you how to turn systems data into actionable insights using Fluent Bit. You’ll start by learning the pre-built plugins for common use cases and progress to integration with powerful tools like OpenTelemetry and real-time analytical event processing. You’ll use plugins to configure routing, filtering and processing, automate your observability with Lua scripts, and configure Fluent Bit to meet the demands of highly scalable environments.

Logging in Action
  • March 2022
  • ISBN 9781617298356
  • 392 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Cloud / Log Monitoring

Logging in Action teaches you to record and analyze application and infrastructure data using Fluentd. Using clear, relevant examples, it shows you exactly how to transform raw system data into a unified stream of actionable information. You’ll discover how logging configuration impacts the way your system functions and set up Fluentd to handle data from legacy IT environments, local data centers, and massive Kubernetes-driven distributed systems. You’ll even learn how to implement complex log parsing with RegEx and output events to MongoDB and Slack.