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

Today I presented at  KCD Porto in Portugal, speaking to one of my favorite subjects in observability.  .

This inaugural event was really well done and had four different stages with talks from key-note speakers, leading experts and technical experts, and interactive workshops. 

There were a lot of different opportunities for networking across the two day event in sunny Porto, where the food, snacks and drinks throughout the event were nothing short of amazing! There were over +300 attendees at the Alfandega Congress Center which is right on the Douro river, so the views from my session were stunning out over the river. 

Below you will find the slides from my session and the abstract.

This was a unique type of talk where the attendees were given the steering wheel to drive where they wanted go in the conversation. The options they took in their adventure was the path of their choosing,  covering the pitfalls that interested them the most from the provided menu. Here are the slides:

 

Below is the abstract for completeness.

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.

 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

It was great seeing everyone in Porto and talking about all things cloud native observability. Appreciate all the conversations and feedback after my session and hope to see you all again soon.