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

Today I shared my workshop collection on the attending Platform Engineers, giving them all they needed to get started integrating observability from the ground up in their developer experiences. This all focused on the metrics, tracing, pipeline, and visualization projects from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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

My talk was 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.

Below you will find my slides and the original abstract from my workshop.

The slides I used can be found below:

Below my abstract and session details for completeness:

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.

Thanks to all who joined and don't worry if you missed it, the links above provide you with all of the free hands-on observability workshops you can handle!