KCD Porto: Choose Your Own Adventure - Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls

A new destination is on the horizon after I was invited to speak at KCD Porto in Portugal on 27-28 September. The fun part of this one is that it's the very first edition in Portugal, adding to my growing list of KCD events where I've made the first time speaker listing.

They list what you can expect as follows:

• 4 different stages with talks from key-note speakers, leading experts and technical experts, while participating in interactive workshops and events. 
• A lot of different opportunities for networking with other linked-minded folks. 
• Tasty food, snacks and drinks throughout the entire event.
• + 300 Diverse attendees & speakers including leading experts from Open Source, DevOps and Cloud Native communities.

It will be located at the Alfandega Congress Center which is right on the Douro river, so looking forward to the views from my session over the river! Let's look at what I plan to talk about.

I'm excited to share this unique type of talk where the attendees are given the steering wheel to drive where we go in the conversation. It's a story that they are provided with the options to take a path of their choosing, to cover the pitfalls that interest them the most in the provided menu.

This talk is a lot of fun, and it is also backed by hands-on content that the attendees can pursue at their own pace after the event to learn more about the open source technologies and projects related to cloud native observability.

Choose Your Own Adventure: Cloud Native Observability Pitfalls

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud native observability? When you're moving so fast with agile practices across your DevOps, SRE's, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud native initiatives. That hasty decision up front leads to big headaches very quickly down the road. Join me for an hour of audience engaging power where you the attendee can choose-your-own-pitfalls-adventure, by polling the attendees shall determine the course of the session! I'll introduce attendees to the problem facing everyone with cloud native observability followed by any 3 common mistakes that I'm seeing organizations make (depending on what the attendees choose!) and how you can avoid them.

Date: Saturday, 28 September 2024

Time: 15:55-16:30

Room: Sala La Reroute

Key takeaways: There are pitfalls exploring OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Fluent Bit as specific CNCF projects in our cloud native observability landscape with pointers to hands-on workshops found at https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Porto and talking about all things cloud native observability, so be sure to register before the limited seating are all filled