Infobip Shift EU 2024: Platform Engineers Arise! Adding Observability to Your Platform Toolbox

Back in 2018 I was exposed for the first time to an amazing conference then known as Shift Developer Conference. It was an amazing location in Split, Croatia and one of the founders, Ivan Burazin quickly became a good friend.

I spoke on the main stage which was hosted in the Croatian National Opera House, something that remains a special experience. I've stayed in contact with the organizers and went to Infobip Shift EU in Zadar last September presenting on avoiding the common pitfalls around the flood of cloud data that typically comes with the user experience. In the Spring I was at Infobip Shift NA in Miami to share a workshop focused on the Perses project. 

This year's Infobip Shift EU is from 15-17 September and below you will find the outline of my workshop I'm giving covering observability for Platform Engineers. 

Let's look at the session and activities around this year's event.

The following talk is based on an observability workshop collection covering metrics, tracing, pipelines, and visualization of telemetry data. Platform engineering can and should include observability from the basic start of their developer experience and these open source CNCF projects all provide what you need to get started.

Platform Engineers Arise! Adding Observability to Your Platform Toolbox

Great observability begins with great instrumentation! We know it's hard to decide where to start your observability journey, so we've come up with a perfect introduction to observability in this workshop collection. Platform engineers are getting hands-on with the best Cloud Native Computing Foundation open source observability projects available. Attendees can pick their own cloud native learning path (https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io) in this session from the following workshops:

• OpenTelemetry (traces)
• Prometheus (metrics)
• Fluent Bit (pipelines)
• Perses (visualization)

Key takeaways - Imagine a team of engineers starting a project with observability as a top priority, dedicating time, and resources to creating a comprehensive telemetry strategy from the outset... Great engineering teams will prioritize observability, just as they would prioritize testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment, from the outset. This workshop is never the same twice as you the attendees choose from a list of CNCF cloud native observability technologies and get hands-on learning about metrics, data pipelines, traces, and data visualization. Each workshop is engaging and requires attendees to solve common challenges as they learn about the open source solutions that interest them the most! The workshop is self-paced and available online, so attendees can continue to explore after the event.

Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024

Room: Workshop 2

Time: 16:30 - 17:30

The schedule is online, so be sure to register and I'll see you there!